Ex-ANP senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour passes away after extended sickness



ANP leader Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (late) gestures during a public gathering. — Facebook/@ANPMarkaz
ANP chief Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (late) gestures throughout a public gathering. — Fb/@ANPMarkaz

Awami Nationwide Celebration (ANP) chief and former senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour handed away on the age of 84 after extended sickness, his get together confirmed on Saturday. 

The announcement was made by ANP chief Samar Haroon Bilour in a social media put up on X, which learn: “Brother of Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, Shaheed Bashir Ahmed Bilour, Aziz Ahmed Bilour and father of Ghazanfar Bilour [former] senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour has handed away.”

Additional confirming Ilyas’s demise, the deceased’s brother and senior get together chief Ghulam Ahmed stated that the previous lawmaker was affected by a kidney illness and had been receiving remedy at a hospital in Peshawar for a number of months. He handed away at 4am, he said.

The previous was a member of the higher home of parliament from 2012 to 2018, and was affiliated with the ANP because the starting of his political journey.

— X@SamarHBilour
— X@SamarHBilour

Nevertheless, he ceased his political actions after his son Ghazanfar joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) — a rival get together of the ANP.

Offering particulars of the funeral, Samar stated that the desire happen at Peshawar’s Wazir Bagh at 2pm tomorrow (Sunday) and the deceased can be laid to relaxation in his ancestral graveyard.

Throughout his political profession, Ilyas had served in numerous capacities together with vp of Standing Committee of IPU on Sustainable Growth, Finance and Commerce for Asia Pacific and Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Trade.

As a businessman, other than being a life member of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the politician had additionally served as Pak-Asia Enterprise Council chairman and was twice elected because the president of Indo-Pak Chamber of Commerce and Trade.

Reacting to the grim information, President Asif Ali Zardari expressed deep grief and sorrow over the loss of life of former senator.

The president provided his heartfelt condolences to the members of the family and prayed for braveness for the bereaved household.