Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was appointed as leader of the house in the Senate on Friday, according to a notification issued by the Senate Secretariat.
\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is also the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), appointed Dar to the post.
\nEarlier this year, the premier had appointed federal law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar as leader of the house in the Senate.
\nIt is pertinent to note that Dar was sworn in as a senator a day after he had returned to the country after a five-year-long ‘self-exile’. Following this, he was sworn in as the new finance minister.
\nThe PML-N leader had left the country in 2017 while standing trial in a corruption reference.
\nThe move came after former finance minister Miftah Ismail stepped down from his post to make way for the PML-N senator.
\nThe decision to appoint Dar as the new financial czar was made following an important party meeting held under the chairmanship of party supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in London.
\nOn Wednesday he had appeared before an accountability court in the assets reference, right after taking the oath of office as federal minister.
\nExplaining his reason to not have had appeared before the court all these years, Dar had told the court that his passport was cancelled by the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, and all embassies had also been instructed to not issue a new passport to him.
\n\u201cIn spite of my poor health, I still wanted to return and now that I have been issued a passport, I have come back,\u201d Dar had told Judge Muhammad Bashir.
\nDuring the hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was issued a notice on Dar’s plea seeking cancellation of the arrest warrant against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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