Senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour on Tuesday denied the possibility to defect from the Awami National Party (ANP), deeming defection criminal for himself and his brother Ghulam Ahmed Bilour. Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House, he dispelled the rumours that the Bilour brothers might join the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), saying, “Our family is not of the kind which opts for defection and switches loyalties for political gains … We will swim and sink with the party, bearing the torch of Bacha Khan’s ideology.” He denied engaging in talks with the PML-N leadership over changing party. “We were and will remain associated with the ANP under the dynamic leadership of Asfandyar Wali,” he added.