Army chief, interim PM offer condolences

The soyem of Awami National Party leader and candidate of PK-78 Haroon Bilour will be held today at Bilour House

PESHAWAR: The soyem of Awami National Party leader and candidate of PK-78 Haroon Bilour will be held today (Friday) at Bilour House, Peshawar.

Fateha Khawani and condolence visits continued all the day on Thursday at Bilour House.

Hundreds of people came to offer fateha including senior politicians, Interim PM Justice (retd) Nasirul Mulk, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, K-P Caretaker CM Justice (retd) Dost Mohammad Khan, Pakistan People’s Party senior leader Aitzaz Ahsan, K-P ex-CM Pervez Khattak, Qaumi Watan Party leader Sikandar Sherpao along with traders and business community people.

Activists of ANP in PK-78 held a rally to protest the suicide attack on the party’s corner meeting in which 22 activist and supporters of party were killed include the party candidate Haroon Bilour.

Haroon’s son Danyal Bilour also participated in the rally and vowed to grab the seat of PK-78 in the elections.

Former minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour on Thursday visited the houses those who died in the attack for condolence and also met with the injured who are under treatment at the Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 13^th, 2018.