Years active 1970 - 2012 Religion Islam Home town Peshawar | Name Bashir Bilour Siblings Ghulam Ahmad Bilour Parents Bilour Din | |
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Born 1 August 1943 ( 1943-08-01 ) Occupation Provincial MPA,Senior Minister, Businessperson, Died December 22, 2012, Peshawar, Pakistan Similar People Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar K | ||
Political party Awami National Party | ||
Bashir ahmad bilour
Bashir Ahmad Bilour (Pashto: بشیر احمد بلور; 1 August 1943 - 22 December 2012) was a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Senior Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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Early life and education
Bashir Ahmad Bilour was born on 1 August 1943 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. He belongs to a prominent political and social Hindko-speaking Awan family of Peshawar.
Bilour had a bachelor's degree in law. He was a member of Peshawar High Court Bar as a lawyer and took part in the active politics from the platform of Awami National Party since 1970.
Political life
In the 2008 elections, Bashir Bilour was elected as a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with majority of the votes (over 4000) from PF-3, a constituency of Peshawar City. He remained MPA for 5 consecutive times. He was the parliamentary leader and was the only MPA of ANP even after the MMA wave when Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and many others lost.
Controversies
On 2012, Bilour offered a bounty of $100,000 (£61,600) for the killing of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the producer and writer of the anti-Islamic short film Innocence of Muslims.
Death and funeral
On 22 December 2012, Bilour was leaving after attending a meeting of ANP workers at a private residence in Peshawar, when he was attacked and critically injured by a suicide bomber at 6:15 PM. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where he died at 7:40 PM. His secretary Noor Muhammad was also killed in the blast. This was the 5th attack on him and, as usual, he had no guards. The funeral prayer for him was held at Colonel Sher Khan Army Stadium on 23 December 2012 with at least 200,000 people despite threats, the city was closed as the father of peshawar, and face of KP assembly was buried at Syed Hasan Pir graveyard in Peshawar.