PESHAWAR – Six new Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly members who emerged victorious in by-elections took oath on Tuesday.
Samar Bilour, the widow of slain Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haroon Bilour, is also among the victorious candidates; She won PK-78 by-polls.
Haroon was killed in a Peshawar attack during his election rally near Kohati Gate locality in the same constituency before the July 25 general elections and polling was postponed in the wake of his assassination.
Samar Haroon Bilour is the first woman in 16 years to have won a general seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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The last time a woman who won a seat through direct elections was Ghazala Habib Tanoli, a female MPA elected on the ticket of the then Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao, now renamed as Qaumi Watan Party.
Before that Begum Nasim Wali Khan, the widow of great Pakhtun nationalist leader Abdul Wali Khan, remained opposition leader in the then NWFP Assembly after being elected as MPA in the 1997 general election.
Aghaz Ikramullah Gandapur, son of former K-P minister Ikramullah Gandapur, Defense Minister Pervez Khattak’s son Ibrahim Khattak and brother Liaquat Khattak were also among who took the oath.
Aqibullah, a former member of the National Assembly and brother of NA speaker Asad Qaiser is also among the new MPAs.
Another two newly-elected MPAs could not reach the assembly to take oath.
