Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Nasirul Mulk (Acting) Imran Khan Shehbaz Sharif
Constituency
Punjab
In office March 2012 – March 2018
President
Asif Ali Zardari Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister
Yusuf Raza Gillani Raja Pervez Ashraf Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (Acting) Nawaz Sharif Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Constituency
Punjab
In office March 2006 – March 2012
President
Pervez Musharraf Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz Muhammad Mian Soomro (Acting) Yusuf Raza Gillani
Constituency
Punjab
In office March 2003 – March 2006
President
Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister
Zafarullah Khan Jamali Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain Shaukat Aziz
Constituency
Punjab
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
In office 14 March 2012 – 4 June 2013
President
Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister
Yusuf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (Acting)
Preceded by
Abdul Ghafoor Haideri
Succeeded by
Aitzaz Ahsan
Minister of Commerce
In office 25 December 1997 – 12 October 1999
President
Farooq Leghari Wasim Sajjad (Acting) 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
(1950-05-13) 13 May 1950 (age 73) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party
PMLN (2008-present)
Spouse
Tabassum Ishaq
Relations
Spouse
Education
Hailey College of Commerce (B.Com.); ICAEW (Fellow Chartered Accountant)
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar (Urdu: محمد اسحاق ڈار; born 13 May 1950), is a Pakistani politician who currently serves as Foreign Minister of Pakistan and the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan since 2024. He previously served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2022 to 2023, as Leader of the House for the Senate since 2022, and as Leader of the Opposition for the Senate of Pakistan from 2012 to 2013. Dar, affiliated with the PMLN, was reelected as a senator on a technocrat seat from Islamabad in the 2024 Pakistani Senate elections. He identifies as a free-market conservative and has been associated with both economically liberal and fiscally conservative policies.
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.[1] He entered politics in the 1980s. He was elected to the senate in 2003 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2013.[2] He has served as federal minister for commerce; industries and investment; and finance and revenue.
^"Senate of Pakistan". senate.gov.pk. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (15 March 2012). "Ishaq Dar new leader of opposition in Senate". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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