QUETTA, Aug 31: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, has invited PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to visit Balochistan to remove misunderstandings between peoples of Balochistan and Punjab.

He said that misgivings had been created by the Musharraf government’s ‘wrong policies’. According to a statement issued here on Friday, he welcomed the Sharif brothers’ decision to return to the country on Sept 10 and said that a JWP delegation, led by senior vice-president Haji Ashraf Kakar, would receive the PML-N leader at Islamabad airport.

Nawabzada Bugti urged leaders of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) to launch a decisive movement against the army rule and said the Musharraf government that was at the verge of collapse.

Insisting that people of Balochistan resented the killings in the military operation in that province, the JWP leader said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif genuinely represented the Punjab province and he should visit Quetta to assess the alarming situation in Balochistan. He said that the killing of innocent people, abduction of women by security forces, illegal arrests of political workers and victimisation of government’s opponents were serious issues that needed to be tackled properly.

He asserted that JWP was part of the APDM and it would continue its struggle for people’s rights.