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Samar Bilour: My political role is the best revenge on terrorists
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Samar Bilour is a woman of many things — the widow of martyr Haroon Bilour, daughter-in-law of martyr Bashir Bilour and the first woman elected as MPA on a general seat in 18 years.She is the provincial information secretary of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP). Recently, she exchanged her views on political, social, apolitical, and societal issues with Daily Times. The first question was about the ANP’s future political strategy after leaving the Pakistain Democratic Alliance (PDA). She rules out rejoining the alliance "because we have been feeling squeezed in the PDM for a while". She regrets the way her party was served a show cause notice and then excluded from committees, meetings, etc. The ANP left the PDM after its senator supported PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gilani in the Senate for the opposition leader’s office. Samar, however, cleared the ANP and the PPP are more natural allies but so far they are not in a new alliance currently. The ANP supported PML-N candidate Miftah Ismail, which was a decision by the ANP Sindh chapter, she explained. Samar has been criticizing the PTI government both in the assembly and on social media. "I’m very very disappointed in the performance of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government. As you are aware, that I was not a practicing politician until July 10 2018 when my husband passed away in a suicide kaboom, and then a couple of months later when I joined active politics, the PTI has totally transformed everything — from the police to the education sector to sanitation." The government has even not spared the assembly. "The CM does not come (to sessions); the same is the case with ministers and secretaries. It is a very distressing state of affairs when a premier law-making body of the province is so toothless and so powerless that the people sitting inside are powerless. "Corruption is rampant and there are no checks and balances." In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, no matter the people of the opposing parties, they would participate in each other’s happiness and sorrows, and you know not cross certain lines. Posted by: Fred 2021-05-24 |
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