Samar Haroon Bilour

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Samar Haroon Bilour
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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24 October 2018 18 January 2023

Samar Haroon Bilour is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from October 2018 till January 2023.

Political career

Samar was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of Awami National Party (ANP) from the constituency PK-78 in 2018 Pakistani by-elections held on 14 October 2018. She defeated Muhammad Irfan Abdul Salman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Samar garnered 20,916 votes while her closest rival secured 16,819 votes. [4] With this election, Samar became the first woman to be elected on a general seat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly in sixteen years. [5] She became provincial Secretary Information of Awami National Party Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 4 June 2020.

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