Khurshid Begum, the wife of Awami National Party (ANP) leader and former minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, passed away after a prolonged illness on Wednesday.
A day earlier, she was rushed to a private hospital when her condition deteriorated rapidly.
Her funeral prayers will be offered 11am at Wazir Bagh on Thursday (today). Ghulam Bilour was a member of the National Assembly from NA-1 Peshawar and served as railways minister on two occasions. The couple lost their only son, Shabbir Ahmad Bilour, in a firing incident at a polling booth in Wazir Bagh during the 1997 general elections.
Ghulam’s brother Bashir Bilour was one of the leading voices against extremism before he was killed in a suicide attack. Bashir was a senior K-P minister and leader of ANP. During his life, the then president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, awarded Bashir Bilour the Tamgha-e-Shujaat for his services.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 7th, 2016.
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