Samar Haroon Bilour | |
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Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
In office 24 October 2018 –18 January 2023 | |
Constituency | PK-78 (Peshawar-XIII) |
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Nationality | Pakistani |
Political party | Awami National Party |
Spouse | Haroon Bilour [1] |
Relations | Ghulam Ishaq Khan (grandfather) [2] Bashir Ahmad Bilour (father-in-law) [3] |
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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.
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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