ISLAMABAD: Senator-elect Ishaq Dar is taking oath as a Senator today afternoon. The oath taking ceremony will be held at 4pm at the Senate.
On Wednesday, Ishaq Dar will take oath as Finance Minister to assume the charge of the economic affairs of Pakistan.
Former finance minister and a senior PML-N leader Ishaq Dar reached Islamabad Monday night along with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif amid top-level protocol.
Dar returned from London after five years’ self-exile in special plane of PM Shehbaz Sharif which landed at Noor Khan Air-base in Rawalpindi.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail had already tendered his resignation and PM Shehbaz will accept it before the oath-taking of Dar as Finance Minister.
The decision to appoint Ishaq Dar as Finance Minister was taken in London meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.
On Saturday Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah confirmed that Dar is returning to Pakistan and that he will appear in the court.
On Friday, an accountability court in Islamabad suspended arrest warrants for former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar until October 7. The court said it would revoke the orders once the accused appeared in the court. On Tuesday, the judge of the accountability court did not turn up in his court. Consequently, Ishaq Dar will take oath as Senator today evening and as a finance minister on Wednesday morning.
