PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour was assassinated on Saturday in a suicide attack in the Dhaki Naalbandi locality in the historic Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 22 December, 2012.
Eight other people, including Station House Officer (SHO) of the Khan Raziq Police Station and personal assistant of Bashir Bilour, were also killed in the suicide bombing. The banned Tahrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), meanwhile, accepted the responsibility for the attack.
The 69-year-old Bashir Bilour, a leader of the ruling Awami National Party (ANP), and his elder brother Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmad Bilour were attending a meeting at Dhaki Naalbandi where the elders of the area announced joining the ANP when a suicide bomber detonated explosives tied to his body close to the senior minister when he was leaving the venue.
“It was a suicide blast. The skull and feet of the bomber have been recovered,” Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shafqat Malik told Dispatch News Desk (DND). He said steel pellets and five to six kilograms of explosives were used in the blast that also damaged nearby houses and shops.
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