Bashir Ahmad Bilour is a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Senior Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Early life

Bashir Ahmad Bilour was born on August 1, 1943 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He belongs to a prominent political and social Hindko speaker family of Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

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Bilour has a bachelors degree in law

Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...

. He is a member of Peshawar High Court Bar as a lawyer and has been taking part in the active politics from the platform of Awami National Party

Awami National Party

The Awami National Party is an Pashtun nationalist, socialist, centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International...

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. It was his 5th consecutive success from this constituency as MPA while he has taken oath as a senior minister of ANP for the 4th time. He has also served as party Provincial President for the province.