Ishaq Dar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ishaq Dar

Pakistani politician

Date of Birth: 13-May-1950

Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Profession: politician, economist, financier

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Ishaq Dar

  • Muhammad Ishaq Dar (Urdu: ???? ????? ????; born c.?1950) is a Pakistani accountant and former politician who served as the Finance Minister of Pakistan.
  • He is a fugitive since December 2017 and is currently based in the United Kingdom under political asylum status.
  • Previously, he had been a Member of the Senate of Pakistan, from 2003 to 2018.
  • He is a former Minister for Industries and Investment, Minister for Commerce and four-time Minister for Finance of Pakistan. Born in 1950 and grew up in Lahore, Dar was educated at the Hailey College of Commerce, Government College University, later attending the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
  • Prior to entering politics, he worked as a professional chartered accountant in various private and public sector organizations. Dar started his political career in early 1980s and since then he has been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan twice for Lahore and to the Senate thrice.
  • He hold his first public office as the Chairman of Pakistan Board of Investment for a year during the first government of Nawaz Sharif.
  • After the PML-N victory in the 1997 general election, he held the cabinet portfolios of Minister for Commerce, Minister for Industries and Investment and Minister for Finance, until the 1999 coup.
  • He remained in jail for two years over corruption charges. In 2003, he made his debut in the Senate where he would later become Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2013.
  • After the formation of a coalition government following the 2008 general election, he briefly re-appointed as the Finance Minister for the second time under Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
  • In 2013, during the third government of Nawaz Sharif, Dar was re-appointed as the Minister for Finance for the third time where he served until the dissolution of the cabinet following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in July 2017.
  • In August 2017, he was inducted into the cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and was re-appointed as Minister for Finance for the fourth time – a post he retained until November 2017 when he voluntarily stepped down amid a corruption case against him.
  • In March 2018, he was re-elected to the Senate.

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