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ANP senior leader quits politics

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) senior leader and former federal minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has bid farewell to politics, ARY News reported on Thursday citing sources.

The experienced politician, who lost the past three elections in Peshawar, has declared his retirement from politics and plans to relocate to Islamabad.

The former railways minister went on to add that his brother Bashir Bilour and nephew Haroon Bilour had been slain, and he saw no need to continue in Peshawar because he was no longer interested in politics.


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“I was pronounced the loser of four elections that I had won. “My brother, son, and nephew were martyred by militants,” he has claimed, adding, “Now I am thinking of moving to Islamabad.”

Political career

Ghulam Ahmad Bilour entered politics in the 1970s with the ANP. Between 1988 and 2024, he ran in 12 general elections from his ancestral seat in Peshawar.

He lost his maiden try for the NA seat in 1988 to Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, but won in subsequent by-elections.

He also beat former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the 1990 election and was appointed minister of railways in Nawaz Sharif’s federal cabinet.

He was defeated by former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2013 election and was unable to return to the National Assembly in 2018 or 2024 due to recurrent defeats at the hands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates.

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