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{{Short description|Pakistani politician (1943–2012)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

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2012228df=yes}}|employer =Member of Provincial Assembly>Provincial MPA, Senior Minister, Businessperson,|years_active = 1970–2012|height =|title =|term =|predecessor =|successor =|party = Awami National Party|opponents =|boards =|spouse =|partner =|children = Haroon Bilour|parents = Ghulam Ahmad Bilour (brother) Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (brother)HTTPS://WWW.THENEWS.COM.PK/PRINT/342321-THE-UNENDING-TRAGEDIES-OF-PESHAWAR-S-BILOUR-FAMILYWORK=THE NEWSACCESS-DATE=15 JULY 2023LAST=SHAH, Samar Haroon Bilour (daughter-in-law)|callsign =|awards =|signature =|website =|footnotes =}}Bashir Ahmad Bilour (; 1 August 1943 – 22 December 2012) was a Pakistani member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Senior Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.WEB,weblink Welcome to the Website of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013-01-01, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121129211142weblink">weblink 29 November 2012,

Early life and education

Bashir Ahmad Bilour was born on 1 August 1943 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan to father Bilour Din. He belongs to a prominent political and social Kakazai family of Peshawar.WEB, Our Team - Afghan Kakazai Welfare Trust, Peshawar,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190102041639weblink">weblink 2019-01-02, 2018-07-14, WEB,weblink Personifying the art of politics, Ali Shah, Syed Inayat, 2008-11-05, The News (Pakistan),weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110728060105weblink">weblink dead, 2011-07-28, 2018-07-14, Bilour had a bachelor's degree in law. He was a member of Peshawar High Court Bar as a lawyer and took part in active politics from the platform of Awami National Party since 1970.

Political life

In the 1990 elections, Bashir Bilour was elected as a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for the first time with majority of the votes, (over 4000) from PF-3, a constituency of Peshawar City. He remained MPA for 5 consecutive times, from 1990 - 2012 until his martyrdom bashir bilour remained in parliament and was part of the cabinet as minister 4 times for KPK then NWFP, 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.NEWS, Hidayat, Khan, REPLUG: Three years on, Bilour's war is still on {{!, The Express Tribune |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1014113/the-good-fight-three-years-on-bilours-war-is-still-on/ |work=The Express Tribune |date=22 December 2015}}

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 taken 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 was usual for Bilour, he had no guards with him. The funeral prayer for him was held at Colonel Sher Khan Army Stadium on 23 December 2012 with at least 20,000 people despite threats. The city was closed as he was buried at Syed Hasan Pir graveyard in Peshawar.NEWS, Bashir Ahmed Bilour laid to rest,weblink 23 December 2012, The News, 23 December 2012, Peshawar, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121223124438weblink">weblink 23 December 2012,

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