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Haroon Bilour

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In 2007, Bilour, his brother, his father and his uncle were nominated in a case involving the killing of two members of an adversary family. Hostilities emerged between the families back in 1997, when the only son of Bilour's uncle was shot dead at a polling station during by-election on a National
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Ghulam Bilour was attacked by bomb in 2013, as his SUV pulled up to a Peshawar guesthouse for a rally. Haroon Bilour was headed to the site, but stopped his car about 100 feet (30 m) away to chat with a friend. Supporters pulled his uncle out of the car seconds before it caught fire.
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On late night 10 July 2018, Haroon Bilour arrived at Yakatoot area in Peshawar where ANP workers had gathered for a corner meeting. As his vehicle arrived, a loud explosion occurred. Bilour suffered serious injuries and was shifted to hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
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Bilour survived two suicide attacks targeted at him. In April 2013, a suicide attack claimed by TTP on an ANP election rally that targeted Bilour and his uncle killed 18 other people. However, Haroon Bilour was not present at the rally.
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In June 2018, Bilour opposed the Town-1 Peshawar administration's ban on the display of election posters and banners on historic gates of the city, on the conserved city wall and on the
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Bilour's body was shifted to his residence at Bilour House. ANP supporters gathered outside his residence and shouted slogans against government for his "failure to provide security".
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Archaeological Complex. He argued the code of conduct about the display of flags and banners was the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of Pakistan.
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later claimed the responsibility that they had targeted the party meeting which killed Bilour. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan termed this target a revenge of
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Bilour and his brother Usman Bashir Bilour contested assembly elections in 2002 and 2008 and lost. Haroon Bilour was once elected as Nazim of
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In 2017, Bilour said that he was "proud of the sacrifices the people, police and armed forces have rendered for the cause of peace".
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Assembly seat. In 2011, a group of elders brought an end to the family dispute at the advice of then-President
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Haroon Bilour's brother Usman did not participate in politics and died of a cardiac arrest in December 2014.
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postponed the polls for PK-78, constituency from which Bilour was to contest election.
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Fearing a low election turnout because of the attacks on the ANP, Bilour said that the
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Bilour was a barrister, and he joined politics following the footsteps of his father
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Thousands of people from different walks of life attended the funeral of Bilour in
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in a suicide bombing during a party meeting in Peshawar on 10 July 2018.
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Haroon Bilour's son Danyal was 21 at the time of Haroon's death.
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Terrorist incidents attributed to Pakistani jihadist groups
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In 2016, Bilour's security guards allegedly assaulted a
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Index

Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Awami National Party
Samar Haroon Bilour
Bashir Ahmad Bilour
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour
Ilyas Ahmed Bilour
Irfanullah Khan Marwat
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Urdu
Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Bashir Ahmed Bilour
was killed
Bashir Ahmed Bilour
PK-78 constituency
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly
Town-1 Peshawar
Asif Ali Zardari
Peshawar High Court
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour
Member of the National Assembly
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Gorkhatri
Sindh
Irfanullah Khan Marwat
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Awami National Party
General Election 2013
Peshawar

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