LAHORE, Sept 30: Talal Bugti, the Jamhoori Watan Party leader and son of late Nawab Akbar Bugti, says the only solution to Balochistan issue is pulling out forces from there and ending role of secret agencies in the province.

He was talking to the media after arriving in the city from Quetta on Sunday to call on PML-N President Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind residence on Monday (today).

Cautioning that the role the country’s secret agencies were playing in Balochistan would further worsen the situation there, he said his party would boycott the next general election if their activities were not stopped.

Referring to former Balochistan chief minister Akhtar Mengal’s six points, he said he had made similar demands in his statements six years ago.

He said that he would meet leaders of all political parties except the PML-Q leadership during his stay in Lahore.

Another leader from Balochistan, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who is chief of PKMAP, had called on Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday and discussed with him national politics as well as the situation in the restive province.

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