Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour (born December 1939) is a former senior vice President in the Awami National Party

Awami National Party

The Awami National Party is an Pashtun nationalist, socialist, centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International...

 (ANP) and present Federal Railways minister in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. A present and former three time Federal Minister in Pakistan, he has played a significant role in the ANP and its predecessor, the National Awami Party

National Awami Party (Wali)

The National Awami Party was formed after a split between Maulana Bhashani and Khan Wali Khan ostensibly over Bhashani's siding with China and Professor Muzaffar Ahmed along with Khan Abdul Wali Khan sided with U.S.S.R in the Sino-Soviet split...

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Bilour got his early education from the Khudad Model School and Islamia School Peshawar. He did his intermediate from Edwardes College

Edwardes College

Edwardes College is an undergraduate and graduate institution in the city of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province along Pakistan’s northwest border with Afghanistan...

 and got married soon afterwards. As a youth, Bilour participated in the election campaign of Fatima Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah , was one of the figurative and pioneering woman figure in Pakistan Movement and was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. An active political figure in the movement for independence from the British Raj, she is commonly known in Pakistan as Khātūn-e...

. He, however, joined active politics from the platform of the National Awami Party

National Awami Party

The National Awami Party was a leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded in Dhaka in erstwhile East Pakistan in July 1957 through the merger of several leftist and progressive groups. It advocated provincial autonomy, rights on the basis of ethnicity, recognition of ethinicities...

 (NAP) in the 1970s and ever since has remained with the nationalist party.

A Hindko speaker, he was a close associate of non-violent Pakhtun leader Bacha Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was an Afghan, Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India...

 he has been elected from Peshawar as Member of the National Assembly four times. He is also a prominent businessman in Peshawar. The eldest of four brothers, his family is one of many political dynasties in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Ghulam Bilour is believed to be an aspirant for the party leadership after the present President Asfandyar Wali Khan

Asfandyar Wali Khan

Asfandyar Wali Khan is a democratic socialist and the current the President of the Awami National Party in Pakistan.His father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first President...

completes his term in office.

During his time as Railway minister, The Pakistan Railways seems to be speeding on a Downward track,