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Ghulam Ahmad Bilour

Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is a Pakistani politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2018. He additionally served as Federal Minister for Railways twice and as Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development once.

Early life and education
Bilour was born in an old Hindko-speaking merchant family on 25 December 1939 in Peshawar, British India. The Bilour belongs to a well-known and wealthy business family. He is popularly known as Haji Sahab in Peshawar. ==Political career==
Political career
Bilour participated in the election campaign of Fatima Jinnah He was re-elected to the National Assembly for the second time in the 1990 Pakistani general election He was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-1 (Peshawar-I) in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2013 Pakistani general election from Constituency NA-1 (Peshawar-I), but was unsuccessful and lost the seat to Imran Khan However he re-ran for the seat in by-elections held in July 2013 and was elected to the National Assembly by winning it. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-31 (Peshawar-V) as a candidate of ANP in the 2018 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 42,476 votes and lost the seat to Shokat Ali, a candidate of PTI. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-31 (Peshawar-V) as a candidate of ANP in the 2022 Pakistan by-elections but was unsuccessful. He received 32,252 votes and lost the seat to Imran Khan. Calling for assassinations In 2012, during his tenure as Federal Minister for Railways, he offered a US$100,000 reward for the assassination of the maker of an anti-Islam film, the Innocence of Muslims. He also sought the support of members of the Taliban and al Qaeda Following the statement of Bilour, he was criticised and his party ANP distanced itself from the statement of Bilour, however ANP decided not to take any action against Bilour. In 2015, during his tenure as a member of the National Assembly, he announced a $200,000 bounty for the head of the owner of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that republished the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, and $100,000 compensation for the families of those who killed 11 people during the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Bilour has been married. == References ==
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