Ishaq Dar appointed as deputy prime minister

In line with the notification, the appointment was made by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif “with speedy impact and till additional orders”.

Earlier than Dar taking the function, the final deputy prime minister of the nation was Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, then of PML-Q, who was appointed to the place in June 2012.

Dar served as federal minister for commerce and funding within the 1997-99 authorities of Nawaz Sharif and has twice served as federal minister for finance, financial affairs, income and statistics (1998-99 and 2008).

Previous to his first project as a federal minister, he was appointed minister of state/chief government of Pakistan Funding Board (PIB) from 1992 to 1993. He additionally served as president of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Trade.

In 2008, Dar briefly assumed the duties of federal finance minister however resigned from the place after PML-N determined to half methods with the PPP-led coalition authorities on the centre.

He additionally served because the finance minister for the then-Prime Minster Nawaz’s authorities in 2013.

Dar was reappointed because the finance minister of Pakistan from September 2022 until the top of the coalition authorities’s tenure in August 2023.

Regardless of being the PML-N’s go-to finance knowledgeable for many years, he was surprisingly made the minister of international affairs when PM Shehbaz picked his new look cupboard in March of this yr, along with his most well-liked finance portfolio going to Muhammad Aurangzeb.