Ishaq Dar
Ishaq Dar | |
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اسحاق ڈار | |
Dar in 2024 | |
| 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 28 April 2024 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Parvez Elahi |
| 38th Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2024 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Jalil Abbas Jilani |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 28 September 2022 – 10 August 2023 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Miftah Ismail |
| Succeeded by | Shamshad Akhtar |
| In office 7 June 2013 – 22 November 2017 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
| Preceded by | Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan |
| In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Preceded by | Salman Shah |
| Succeeded by | Naveed Qamar |
| In office 7 November 1998 – 12 October 1999 | |
| President | Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Sartaj Aziz |
| Succeeded by | Shaukat Aziz |
| Leader of the House for the Senate of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 30 September 2022 | |
| President | Arif Alvi Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif Anwaar ul Haq Kakar Shehbaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Azam Nazeer Tarar |
| Senate of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 28 September 2022 | |
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| In office March 2003 – March 2018 | |
| Constituency | Punjab |
| Leader of the Opposition (Pakistan) | |
| In office 14 March 2012 – 4 June 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Abdul Ghafoor Haideri |
| Succeeded by | Aitzaz Ahsan |
| Ministry of Commerce and Textile Industry | |
| In office 25 December 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
| President | Farooq Leghari Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Mukhtar |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Razak Dawood |
| 15th Minister for Industries | |
| In office 25 February 1997 – 11 July 1997 | |
| President | Farooq Leghari |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Sadiq N. K. Awan |
| Succeeded by | Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 May 1950 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Political party | PMLN (1997-present) |
| Spouse | Tabassum Ishaq |
| Education | Hailey College of Commerce (B.Com.); ICAEW (Fellow Chartered Accountant) |
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar (born 13 May 1950) is a Pakistani accountant and politician who currently serves as the 6th deputy prime minister and 38th foreign minister of Pakistan since 2024.
A close aide of the Sharif family, Dar is affiliated with the PML-N and previously served as the finance minister from 2022 to 2023, leader of the House for the Senate in 2022, and Leader of the Opposition for the Senate of Pakistan from 2012 to 2013. He was re-elected as a senator on a technocrat seat from Islamabad in the 2024 Pakistani Senate elections. He is a proponent of a set of economic policies now known as Daronomics.
Ishaq Dar was born in 1950 in Lahore. He attended the Hailey College of Commerce, Government College University, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He began his career as a chartered accountant in the public and private sector. He entered politics in the 1980s. He was elected to the senate in 2003 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2013. He has served as federal minister for commerce; industries and investment; and finance and revenue.