Sarfraz Bugti
Mir Sarfraz Bugti (Urdu, ) (born June 1, 1981) is a Pakistani politician who has served as Minister of Balochistan for Home and Tribal Affairs. Currently, he is serving as a senator of Pakistan. On 17 August 2023, he took oath as Caretaker Interior Minister. Early life and education 
Sarfraz was born in a village of Dera Bugti, Balochistan, Pakistan. His father Mir Ghulam Qadir Masori Bugti was a tribal elder of the Masori sub-clan of the Bugti tribe who was a member of General Zia's Majlis-e-Shoora before becoming a part of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Mir Ghulam was known to be active against the sardari or neo-feudal system of Balochistan and being a political rival of Nawab Akbar Bugti. His brother Jan Mohammad Bugti has also been active in politics as a PPP candidate. Sarfraz completed his early education at the Lawrence College, Murree before enrolling at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad to study Defence and Strategic Studies (DSS) but had to interrupt his higher education when his father was jailed by Pervez Musharraf. Later, he tried to join the Pakistan Army and to pass the Inter-Services Selection Board (ISSB) exams. Political career

Provincial politics in Balochistan 
In 2013, he won the Provincial Assembly elections from Constituency PB-24 as a representative of the Baloch community from Dera Bugti with a clear majority as an independent candidate by securing 10013 votes, and after elections joined PML (N). Sarfraz became Minister of Interior of Balochistan on 14 October 2013. National politics as Caretaker Interior Minister 
In August 2023, he took charge as the country's Caretaker Interior Minister. One of his first decisions was to ask for the release of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activists. Political views

Pakistani nationalism 
Baloch journalist Malik Siraj Akbar has called Sarfraz a representative of "hyper Pakistani nationalism", which he considers to be engineered by the country's establishment. Islamic welfare state 
Sarfraz is a proponent of an Islamic welfare state. Activism against Baloch separatism 
Sarfraz is a notable critic of Baloch separatism, and has spoken against the organization Baluchistan Republic Army (BRA) headed by Brahamdagh Bugti, grandson of Akbar Bugti. The BRA is declared as a terrorist organization by the Government of Pakistan. In a BBC interview, Bugti claimed that the Indian agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in funding and arming militants in Balochistan, but that it stopped doing so after its agent was arrested in Balochistan. 