Deobandi militants in Peshawar Pakistan kill the Lion of Pashtuns Bashir Bilour Shaheed
posted by Abdul Nishapuri | December 22, 2012 | In Featured, Original Articlesقتل گاہوں سے چُن کر ہمارے علم
اور نکلیں گے عشاق کے قافلے
جن کی راہِ طلب سے ہمارے قدم
مختصر کر چلے درد کے فاصلے
کر چلے جن کی خاطر جہاں گیر ہم
جاں گنوا کر تری دلبری کا بھرم
ہم جو تاریک راہوں میں مارے گئے
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Peshawar: Senior Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bashir Ahmed Bilour has been killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar, while seven others have been killed and over 18 injured in a bomb attack by Takfiri Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (SST). Deobandi militants operate in Pakistan’s tribal areas as Taliban or TTP, however, the same group operates as Sipah Sahaba in Peshawar, Karachi, Quetta, Lahore and other settled areas of Pakitan.
Sipah Sahaba Taliban have now claimed responsibility of the deadly attack on Senior Khyber Pakhtunkhua (KPK) Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour. At least seven people were killed and 18 others injured in the suicide blast outside the minister’s residence. He belongs to Awami National Party (ANP), a secular party which is opposed to violent enforcement of Islam by Takfiri Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Taliban.
For Sipah Sahaba Taliban’s reaction to the brutal murder of Bashir Bilour, see this post: https://lubpak.com/archives/234677
Talking to media from an undisclosed location, the TTP Spokesman Ihsan ullah Ihsan claimed responsibility of the attack and vowed to carry out more attacks against all those people who were against the militants.
According to the hospital sources, Bashir Bilour received critical wounds to his chest and stomach and did not survive.
Sources said that the explosion took place when Bashir Bilour was exiting the residence along with his personal secretary and SHO Kabuli Police Station. Both the personal secretary as well as the SHO, Sattar Khan were killed in the explosion in which several others have also been injured.
Why did Sipah Sahaba Taliban attack Bashir Bilour?
Not unlike Mian Iftikhar Hussain of ANP, Bashir Bilour was known as the Lion of Pakhtunkhwa because of his bold stance against Pakistan army-sponsored Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (SST).
Bashir Bilour was aware of Deobandi militants’ terrorist activities against Pakistan in general and the people of KPK and FATA in particular. He was a supporter of the Sunni Shia unity and was always at the forefront of condemning terrorist activities by the Sipah Sahaba Taliban. For example, on 24 November 2012, a few weeks before his martyrdom, Mr Bilour categorically condemned the Deobandi terrorists who attacked Shia Muslims procession in D.I.Khan.
Bashir Bilour condemns DI Khan blast
November 24, 2012
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said that political parties who have not been raising voice against terrorism either were scared of terrorists or were their accomplice, Geo News reported on Saturday. Talking to Geo News, the minister condemned bomb attack (on Shia Muslims) in Dera Ismail Khan and said the (Deobandi) terrorists were enemies of humanity. He said that time had come for all the political parties to jointly raise voice against terrorism. http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-76917-Bashir-Bilour-condemns-DI-Khan-blast-
In 2011: Bashir Bilour condemns the Taliban after Charsadda blast
RIP sir!
Shia Kafir kafir, Barelvi Kafir
ANP Kafiron Ki Haami Hai
sherryrehman @sherryrehman
Sad, shocking.Bashir Bilour was a brave man who stood his ground, in the trenches,standing up to terrorists. May his martyrdom not b in vain
Darvesh @Darveshh
#TakfiriDeobandi Taliban (which apologists in Pakistan call Pashtun Taliban), kill a Pashtun, a Deobandi, Bashir Bilour. Shame on apologists
Karachi_Post @Karachi_Post
If you cant name taliban & deobandi mindset which is behind all attacks in #Pakistan ,there is no use condemning these attacks #pti #pml
Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani
RT@alisalmanalvi: A man of his word. He died fighting. RT @asmashirazi “It is our fight, & we will die fighting” said Bashir Bilour Y’day.
Asma Shirazi @asmashirazi
“We Will Never Bow Down” ANP says after Bashir Bilour martyred R.I.P we need this Resolution from every leader of Pak, every Pol Party
Farheen Rizvi @FarriRizvi
So sorry Bashir Bilour, we have some terrorists’ apologists who say war against these terrorists is not our war.
Darvesh @Darveshh
Friends, you wonder what #Takfiri ideology is? It’s this. #TakfiriDeobandi going against Deobandis themselves, let alone other sects/groups.
Abdul Nishapuri @AbdulNishapuri
Not a single Sunni Barelvi is involved in attacks on army, police, #ShiaGenocide, suicide attacks in Pakistan. #Takfiri Deobandis are. I have a dream. One day Pakistani media will openly discuss that Takfiri Deobandis are responsible for almost all terrorism in Pakistan. In almost every single act of terrorism in Pakistan, Takfiri Deobandis are involved. And those deflecting to Blackwater are Deobandis too. If you want to cause heartache to terrorists in Pakistan, clearly state their identity: #Takfiri Deobandis. It hits them in the eye.
Darvesh @Darveshh
From Taliban to SSP, from LeJ to ASWJ, whatever name you give, they’re all part of #TakfiriDeobandi ideology. Calling others ‘infidels’
Zalaan @Zalaan1
تکفیری دیوبندی اب تک سنی تحریک ، پی پی ، اے این پی اور فوج کی قیادت پر حملے کر چکے ہیں #ANP
Azad @azadtalk
اگر تکفیری ملا اس ظرح طالبان کی حمایت کرتے رہے تو الیکشن تک صرف ملا ہی رہ جائیں گے الیکشن لڑنے کے لئے #TTP #Terrorism #Pakistan #Taliban
How many more Pashtuns will be killed by Punjabi generals and their trained monsters Sipah Sahaba Taliban SST?
RIP Bilour Sahib
No words to describe our grief! Every peace loving Pakistani! Every Pashtun is grieving!
LAANAT ON THE ANIMALS WHO DID THIS! LAANAT ON THOSE POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT THESE ANIMALS!
Once again Pakistani media is silent on those who killed Bashir Bilour. Why don’t they openly say that it is the Taliban terrorists in FATA and Sipah Sahaba terrorists in settled areas?
Why can’t they openly, clearly condemn terrorist? Why can’t they arrest Ehasanullah Ehsan, Malik Ishaq, Ahmed Ludhianvi and kill them?
By the way, congratulations to Imran Khan, Hamid Mir, Munawar Hasan, Nawaz Sharif and Ahmed Ludhianvi.
Apologists of killers are no better than killers.
Agree with Naila Cheema!
Mr Nishapuri please add the honourific Shaheed to Mr Bilour’s name in the title of this post.
So the filthy barbarians (TTP hyenas) took off Bashir Bolour’s name from the hit list and instead killed his brother! These morons will not spare anyone, why don’t ordinary people realise this!!!!
Qui tacet consentire videtur:
Everywhere, anywhere those who maintain their hypocritical silence or justify jihadist savagery are complicit and must be called out, named and shamed by us `muzhiks’ for the faculty lounge sophisticates are keeping shtum.
inn sab Yezidion per la’anat beshumar.
بشیر بلور نے ہمیشہ طالبان کی مخالفت کی
رفعت اللہ اورکزئی
بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور
آخری وقت اشاعت: اتوار 23 دسمبر 2012 , 19:24 GMT 00:24 PST
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خود کش حملے سے قبل بشیر احمد بلور کی آخری تصویر۔
صوبہ خیبر پختون خوا کے سینیئر وزیر بشیر احمد بلور کے ساتھ بھی بالآخر وہی کچھ ہوگیا جس کا بہت پہلے سے خدشہ ظاہر کیا جارہا تھا۔
وہ جس طرح ہر فورم اور میڈیا میں کھل کر طالبان کی مخالفت کرتے تھے اور ان کو ’ملک دشمن اور دہشت گردوں‘ کے نام سے یاد کرتے تھےاس سے اندازہ لگانا مشکل نہیں تھا کہ وہ یقیناً شدت پسندوں کے ہِٹ لِسٹ پر ہوں گے۔
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پشاور:سینئر صوبائی وزیر خود کش حملےمیں ہلاک
بلور کا بیان مجرمانہ ہے: بشریٰ گوہر
بشیر بلور پر قاتلانہ حملہ
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پاکستان, عوامی نیشنل پارٹی, خیبر پختونخوا, دہشت گردی, بم دھماکے
بشیر احمد بلور کے بارے میں کہا جاتا ہے کہ وہ پشاور میں عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کے لیے ریڑھ کی ہڈی کی حیثیت رکھتے تھے۔ ان کی عمر انہتر برس بتائی جاتی ہے۔ انہوں نے انیس سو ستر میں عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کے پلیٹ فارم سے عملی سیاست کا آغاز کیا۔
وہ پہلی مرتبہ انیس سو نوے میں پشاور کے حلقہ پی ایف ون سے صوبائی اسمبلی کے رکن منتخب ہوئے۔ انہیں یہ اعزاز بھی حاصل ہے کہ وہ انیس سو نوے سے دو ہزار آٹھ تک مسلسل پانچ مرتبہ اپنے حلقے سے صوبائی اسمبلی کے رکن منتخب ہوتے رہے ہیں۔
طالبان حملوں کی مذمت
گزشتہ تین سالوں سے ان دونوں وزراء نے اس بات کو اپنی اولین ذمہ داری بنا رکھا تھا کہ پشاور یا صوبے کے کسی دوسرے شہر میں دہشت گردی کا واقعہ پیش آتا تو یہ دونوں وزراء منٹوں میں لپک کر جائے وقوعہ پر پہنچ جاتے اور ذرائع ابلاغ سے بات کرنے میں عوام کو حوصلہ دینے کی بات کرتے اور طالبان حملوں کی شدید الفاظ میں مزمت کرتے تھے۔
دو ہزار دو میں جب مزہبی جماعتوں پر مشتمل اتحاد ایم ایم اے نے پشاور سمیت پورے صوبہ بھر میں انتخابات میں غیر معمولی کامیابی حاصل کی جس میں اے این پی کے کئی اہم رہنما ہارے گئے تھے، اس الیکشن میں بھی بشیر احمد بلور اپنی نشست جیتنے میں کامیاب رہے۔
بشیر احمد بلور تین مرتبہ صوبائی وزیر کے عہدے پر بھی رہ چکے ہیں۔ ان کے پاس سینیئر وزیر، لوکل باڈیز اور کمیونیکشن کے قلمدان رہے ہیں۔ انہوں نے قانون کی ڈگری حاصل کی تھی اور وہ پشاور ہائی کورٹ بار ایسوسی ایشن کے ممبر بھی تھے ۔
سوات میں دو ہزار نو میں جب طالبان اور حکومت کے مابین آخری امن معاہدہ ٹوٹ گیا تو عوامی نیشنل پارٹی نے ہر فورم پر کھول کر طالبان کی مخالفت شروع کردی۔ اس مخالفت میں بشیر احمد بلور اور صوبائی وزیر اطلاعات میاں افتخار حسین سب سے زیادہ پیش پیش رہے۔
گزشتہ تین سالوں سے ان دونوں وزراء نے اس بات کو اپنی اولین ذمہ داری بنا رکھا تھا کہ پشاور یا صوبے کے کسی دوسرے شہر میں دہشت گردی کا واقعہ پیش آتا تو یہ دونوں وزراء منٹوں میں لپک کر جائے وقوعہ پر پہنچ جاتے اور ذرائع ابلاغ سے بات کرنے میں عوام کو حوصلہ دینے کی بات کرتے اور طالبان حملوں کی شدید الفاظ میں مزمت کرتے تھے۔
چند دن پہلے جب رات کے وقت شدت پسندوں نے پشاور کے ہوائی اڈے پر حملہ کیا تو ابھی علاقے میں فائرنگ جاری تھی کہ بشیر احمد بلور اچانک جائے وقوعہ کے قریب پہنچ گئے۔
ان دونوں وزراء کی اس دلیری کی تمام سیاسی جماعتیں بھی اعتراف کرتی رہی ہیں۔ بشیر احمد بلور پر اس سے پہلے بھی دو مرتبہ قاتلانہ حملے ہوچکے ہیں جبکہ صوبائی وزیر میاں افتخار حسین کے اکلوتے بیٹے میاں راشد حسین بھی طالبان حملے میں ہلاک ہوئے تھے۔
کئی دفعہ اس طرح بھی ہوا ہے کہ بشیر احمد بلور یا میاں افتخار حسین کسی دھماکے والے جگہ پر پہنچتے تو صحافی وہاں سے ہٹ جاتے تھے کیونکہ انہیں خوف ہوتا تھا کہ یہ دونوں تو طالبان کے ہٹ لسٹ پر ہیں کہیں ان کے پیچھے کوئی خودکش حملہ آور ہی نہ ہو۔ لیکن تمام تر خطرات کے باوجود یہ دونوں وزراء مسلسل طالبان کی مخالفت کرتے رہے ہیں۔
بلور خاندان
بشیر احمد بلور کا شمار عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کی سینیئر رہنماؤں میں ہوتا تھا۔ خیبر پختون خوا میں بلور خاندان ایک مضبوط کاروباری اور سیاسی خاندان کے طورپر جانا جاتا ہے۔ اس خاندان کے تقریباً تمام افراد اے این پی سے منسلک ہیں۔ مقتول بشیر احمد بلور کے تین بھائی ہیں جن میں دو بھائیوں کا شمار عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کے اہم رہنماؤں میں ہوتا ہے۔ ان کے بڑے بھائی غلام احمد بلور وفاقی وزیر ریلوئے ہیں جبکہ الیاس بلور سینیٹر ہیں۔ ان کے ایک بھائی عزیز احمد بلور کے بارے میں بتایا جاتا ہے وہ سول سروسز میں رہ چکے ہیں۔
بشیر احمد بلور کا شمار عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کی سینیئر رہنماؤں میں ہوتا تھا۔ خیبر پختون خوا میں بلور خاندان ایک مضبوط کاروباری اور سیاسی خاندان کے طورپر جانا جاتا ہے۔ اس خاندان کے تقریباً تمام افراد اے این پی سے منسلک ہیں۔ مقتول بشیر احمد بلور کے تین بھائی ہیں جن میں دو بھائیوں کا شمار عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کے اہم رہنماؤں میں ہوتا ہے۔ ان کے بڑے بھائی غلام احمد بلور وفاقی وزیر ریلوئے ہیں جبکہ الیاس بلور سینیٹر ہیں۔ ان کے ایک بھائی عزیز احمد بلور کے بارے میں بتایا جاتا ہے وہ سول سروسز میں رہ چکے ہیں۔
مرحوم کے دو بیٹے ہارون بلور اور عثمان بلور بھی سیاست میں سرگرم ہیں۔ ہارون بلور ٹاؤن ون پشاور کے ناظم جبکہ عثمان بلور خیبر پختون خوا چیمبر آف کامرس کے صدر رہ چکے ہیں۔
بتایا جاتا ہے کہ ضلع پشاور کی سطح پر اے این پی کو منظّم کرنے میں بلور خاندان کا اہم کردار رہا ہے جس میں بالخصوص بشیر احمد بلور پیش پیش رہے ہیں۔ یہ بھی کہا جاتا ہے کہ پارٹی میں کئی مواقعوں پر اختلافات بھی پیدا ہوئے
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2012/12/121222_bashir_bilour_profile_tk.shtml
Wow….
He is a shaheed although his family ran a place named as shama cinema in peshawar( u can check out the details here http://tribune.com.pk/story/308659/peshawars-open-secret-hardcore-fun-for-a-hard-line-city/)
And also his brother is the one who ruined pakistan railway….
If people like blours and bhuttos are called shaheed…. i dont know what should we say about imam hussain A.S???
Bashir Bilour: the lion slain — Dr Mohammad Taqi
Whether it was the bombings in Peshawar in the 1980s or the siege of the city’s Shia in 1992, Bashir Lala would always be on the frontline
The Awami National Party (ANP) has lost one of its bravest leaders. Senior provincial minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bashir Ahmed Bilour was martyred this past weekend. One of his party colleagues and a fellow Peshawari said, “The lion of Peshawar has been slain.”
Bashir Ahmed was born on August 1, 1943 in the walled city of Peshawar in mohallah Hodah inside the old Ganj gate to Bilour Din sahib. He came from the prominent business and trader family of Peshawar called the Kalals. To my generation he was Bashir Lala, or the elder brother, but to his peers and most of the common Peshawaris, he just remained Bashir jan — the dear Bashir. The bereaving Peshwaris are lamenting: Bashir jan tannay barri ziyadti keeti aiy (this is not fair Bashir jan)
My first recollection of the politician Bashir Lala is from a 1977 election poster, when I believe he was contesting a provincial assembly seat as the National Democratic Party (NDP)/Pakistan National Alliance candidate. The PNA ended up boycotting the provincial elections. But Bashir Lala and his older brothers Haji Ghulam Ahmed and Ilyas Ahmed, presently a federal minister and senator respectively, had joined the National Awami Party (NAP) — and by extension, the Pashtun nationalist movement — somewhere in the early 1970s. His younger brother, Aziz Bilour, remained in the civil service and never joined politics, though there came times that all four brothers were imprisoned by the government of the time for their political affiliations. The NAP was banned and disbanded, but Bashir Lala and his family remained committed to Baacha Khan and Wali Khan’s political thought. The ANP was formed in 1986 after the merger of the NDP, Mazdoor Kissan Party, Awami Tehrik and Pakistan National Party. Bashir Lala was to later become the provincial president of the ANP.
Today, Bashir Lala is remembered for the five consecutive elections he won. I saw him at his finest after his first election and the first and only election defeat in 1988. He was as gracious in defeat as he was in his five wins. The ANP morale was down, as it was routed in the 1988 polls in Peshawar valley. That is where the workhorse Bashir Lala came into the picture. He crisscrossed Peshawar’s alleys to reach out, support and encourage the party cadres. If his oldest brother had the social suave to reach out to the Peshawar families, it was Bashir Lala’s political muscle that held together the ANP election machine in Peshawar from the non-party-based local bodies election of the 1980s to a thumping victory in the 1990 general elections. Peshawar city has traditionally been a stronghold of the assorted Muslim Leagues and then the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Having lost his first election to Syed Ayub Shah of the PPP, Bashir Lala was truly the architect of the Pashtun nationalists finally wresting away Peshawar from the League and the PPP. While deeply inspired by Wali Khan, he was an extremely effective traditional politician who understood the complexities of a large city and the problems of its people. He reached across language and sectarian barriers and stood up for his constituents regardless of party affiliation. But he was one of the few leaders who were readily accessible to party workers whenever they needed him.
When the ANP secured a majority in the 2008 provincial elections, he was one of the front runners for the chief ministership. Some Peshawaris complain that if he was not a Hindko speaker he may have secured the top slot. But Bashir Lala was not only above parochial divisions and very secular in outlook personally, he was also a very pragmatic politician and not an ideologue in any sense. He was not an ideologue until perhaps an ideology of hate befell his city and the province. He became ideologically committed to fight the obscurantists with whatever it took, whenever and wherever. If Mian Iftikhar Hussain is the face of the anti-Taliban ANP, Bashir Lala was its soul. In a country bogged down by confusion over what to do about the Taliban menace, his was a clear vision and message: fight and trounce them for their thought and savage means are incompatible with anything modern.
Lately, we have heard the Pakistani security establishment ostensibly lamenting that the civilians do not show leadership against terrorism. Bashir Lala was a civilian politician who led from the front, knowing full well that it would cost him his life. He had told his wife, the daughter of the Peshawari steel magnate, the late Gul Muhammad Khan, that if my dead body has wounds on the back, you must not see my face. But as we know he took the bomb shrapnel on the chest. His brothers, his wife and his two sons, Usman and Haroon, along with his compadres in the ANP are proud of Bashir Lala. To me this is nothing new. Whether it was the bombings in Peshawar in the 1980s or the siege of the city’s Shia in 1992, Bashir Lala would always be on the frontline. He would barge in with true grit and not leave until the job was done. He always did his part as he has done this time. But can his resolve and example be followed? He is the last fallen along a perilous path on which Salmaan Taseer and indeed Benazir Bhutto were slain, but would certainly not be the last one. While continuing to play footsie with its jihadist proxies, the security establishment is passing the hot potato of decision making to the civilians as they cower under fear and political expediency.
Gunter Grass had noted somewhere that it is a crime to hope when there are no reasons for hope. I am not about to commit that crime. I really do not know what the fates have in store for Peshawar, but RIP Bashir Lala, you will forever be in the hearts of the Peshawaris wherever we are.
The writer can be reached at mazdaki@me.com. He tweets @mazdaki
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\12\25\story_25-12-2012_pg3_3