Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar, known as Usman Lala, was a Pakistani politician affiliated with the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and a Pashtun Tahafuz Movement activist.
25 Facts About Usman Kakar
1.
2.
Usman Kakar was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021.
3.
On 14 March 2022, the Pashtun National Jirga in Bannu demanded that Usman Kakar's death be investigated by a credible judicial commission headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa, and the report be made public.
4.
Usman Kakar's father, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Kakar, was a tribal elder.
5.
Usman Kakar received his primary education at a local school in Hindu Bagh.
6.
Usman Kakar received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Law College Quetta in 1987.
7.
Usman Kakar became politically active in 1977 and joined the Pashtun Students Organisation of the Pashtunkhwa National Awami Party.
8.
Usman Kakar was elected the first secretary of the Pashtunkhwa Students Organization during its maiden conference in 1987 in Peshawar.
9.
Usman Kakar was a member of the central council of the Pashtunkhwa National People's Alliance, which was formed in 1986 when the PNAP and the Pakhtunkhwa Mazdoor Kisan Party reached an agreement.
10.
Usman Kakar was elected as the central secretary during the party's fourth congress in 2013, in addition to his role as the provincial president.
11.
Usman Kakar played an active role not only at the level of his party, but in other political movements, including the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement and the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, the latter of which was formed in the 1980s to end the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq.
12.
Usman Kakar was an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement since its emergence in 2018 and participated in its protests and gatherings.
13.
Usman Kakar was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of PMAP in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election.
14.
Usman Kakar ran for the post of the Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of PMAP in March 2018.
15.
Usman Kakar was unsuccessful and lost the office to a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Saleem Mandviwalla, who got 54 votes and who was supported by the joint opposition.
16.
Usman Kakar received 44 votes and was supported by the Pakistan Muslim League, the ruling party.
17.
On 17 June 2021, Usman Kakar was found lying unconscious on a carpet at his home in Quetta's Shahbaz Town, with blood flowing from his head.
18.
Usman Kakar had travelled with his bodyguard, who returned to the party office after reaching Usman Kakar's home.
19.
Yusuf added that when Usman Kakar was at home, there was no one in his house except his 11-year-old daughter and a woman.
20.
Usman Kakar's funerals were attended by tens of thousands of mourners, including leaders and activists of various political parties.
21.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, a former spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, responded to a journalist's Facebook post by saying that Usman Kakar had not died a natural death, but had been killed, and that Ehsanullah Ehsan was given a hit list in the past that included the name of Usman Kakar.
22.
Usman Kakar added the list included the names of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Said Alam and politician Afrasiab Khattak.
23.
Usman Kakar was a staunch supporter of the Afghan peace process and a staunch opponent of foreign intervention in Afghanistan.
24.
Usman Khan Kakar was the voice of his oppressed and downtrodden people against all forms of violence, oppression, and tyranny, and his death is a great shock to the Afghan homeland and people.
25.
Khushal Kakar added that he was told by the doctors that Usman Kakar had a severe head injury and it could not be due to falling down.