Ilyas Ahmed Bilour

Ilyas Ahmed Bilour
الیاس احمد بلور
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
In office
March 2012 – March 2018
Personal details
Born(1940-07-01)1 July 1940
Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Died16 November 2024(2024-11-16) (aged 84)
Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Political partyANP (2012–2024)
RelativesGhulam Ahmad Bilour (brother)
Bashir Ahmad Bilour (brother)
Haroon Bilour (nephew)[1]

Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (Urdu: الیاس احمد بلور; 1 July 1940 – 16 November 2024) was a Pakistani politician who was a member of Senate of Pakistan from March 2012.

Early life and education

Bilour was born into a political family on 1 July 1940 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from where he got his early education, earning his Faculty of Arts degree from the Edwardes College.[2]

He held a degree of Bachelor of Arts which he received from the University of Karachi in 1969. He also held the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing which he obtained from Al-Khair University, Azad Jammu and Kashmir in 1999.[3]

Business career

Bilour served as the managing director of the company Flour and General Mills (Pvt.) Ltd.[2]

Political career

Bilour was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Awami National Party in 2012 Pakistani Senate election.[4][5][6]

Death

Bilour died from kidney disease on 12 November 2024, at the age of 84.[7]

References

  1. ^ Shah, Sabir (16 July 2018). "The unending tragedies of Peshawar's Bilour family". The News. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan: Millennium 2000, Research Institute of Historiography, Biography and Philosophy, 2001, p. 346
  3. ^ "Profile". www.senate.gov.pk. Senate of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. ^ "PPP contacts N for unopposed Senate slots election". The Nation. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  5. ^ "PPP dominates Senate elections". www.geo.tv. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Senate elections: Despite drama, upset, PPP comes out on top - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Former senator Ilyas Ahmad Bilour passes away". 2024-11-16. Retrieved 2024-11-16.


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