Ishaq Dar returns back in the country post as Pakistan Finance Minister

ISLAMABAD: Ishaq Dar, the former Finance Minister of Pakistan and one of the senior-most leaders of the ruling political party Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) has landed back in the country post spending nearly five years in self-imposed exile after he was accused with corruption on assets beyond means and evasion of taxes by the Pakistan accountability court during Imran Khan's premiership tenure.

However, after the ouster of Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote in the parliament by the joint opposition alliance called Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and PML-N led coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif; Ishaq Dar has not only paved the way to his return to the country after getting his passport released and reinstated, he has come back to take the most important and critical ministry of finance, with an aim to take the country out of the worsening economic turmoil.

Ishaq Dar landed in Pakistan on Monday, took oath as Senator in the Upper House on Tuesday and followed it by taking oath as Federal Minister of Finance on Wednesday to take charge as the country's finance minister.

Ishar Dar has come on an important mission of not only improving the economy and turn things around for the government, but also to pave the way to ensure safe return of the former ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as well. (IANS)

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