QUETTA, March 5: Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, elder son of Nawab Akbar Bugti, has decided against attending the multi-party conference in London, saying he cannot share a forum with leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

In statement issued here on Monday night, he said he had been invited to the MPC by PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, but he could “not sit with the killers of his father and 4,000 Baloch (people) in military operations”.

“Sitting with the MMA in the conference will be tantamount to committing suicide,” he said, adding that while the leadership of the religious alliance was “enjoying all privileges, being the senior ally in the coalition government of Balochistan, it was deceiving the people by making a hue and cry about the unity of opposition parties”.

Describing the MMA as a “mullah-military alliance”, he said the alliance was as much responsible as the federal government for the killing of thousands of Baloch people, including Nawab Bugti.

Therefore, he said, attending the MPC where MMA leaders would also be present would harm the struggle of the Baloch people for their just rights.

No self-respecting Baloch, he added, could sit alongside the murderers of innocent people.

He added that by inviting the MMA leadership to the conference, the PML-N had accepted that opposition parties could not achieve success in their struggle against the military rule and for restoration of genuine democracy without the MMA’s help.