- Dar is an in depth aide of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.
- He’s at present serving as nation’s international minister.
- Beforehand solely Pervaiz Elahi has served as deputy PM.
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Monday reacted strongly to Ishaq Dar’s appointment because the deputy prime minister, saying “Sharif’s are distributing key nationwide posts inside household”.
“The Sharif household is distributing essential nationwide posts amongst themselves,” Particular Assistant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister For Info Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif stated.
Stressing that the Structure doesn’t provision the put up of deputy PM, the PTI chief censured the federal authorities for dispensing posts as an alternative of resolving the problems confronted by the individuals.
Barrister Saif’s remarks come a day after the federal authorities, through a notification issued by the Cupboard Division on Sunday, appointed Dar because the deputy PM with instant impact.
Dar was appointed because the nation’s international minister after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) fashioned a coalition authorities following the February 8 elections.
A a chartered accountant and a seasoned politician, Dar can also be an in depth relative of, and shut aide to, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif.
He has earlier served as finance minister from 1998 to 1999, then from March to Might 2008, and once more led the finance ministry from 2013 to 2017 after which from 2022 to 2023.
The appointment of a four-time finance minister as international minister instructed a ramped-up position for economics within the nation’s diplomacy because the nation tries to safe one other Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) deal and shore up exterior financing.
Earlier than Dar’s appointment, then Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Pervaiz Elahi remained the one nationwide politician who was appointed the nation’s first deputy prime minister in 2012, after the ruling Pakistan Folks’s Celebration and the PML-Q solid a political alliance on the Centre.
Reacting to Dar’s appointment, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Improvement and Transparency (Pildat) President Ahmed Bilal Mehboob termed the PM Shehbaz Sharif-led authorities’s transfer “an extra-constitutional step that carries no substantial worth”.
“This simply signifies intra-party tensions and competitors for affect. It isn’t an admirable step as a result of, at this severe juncture of our nationwide life and the bottom level of our financial situation, we needs to be specializing in substantive points quite than taking trivial and inconsequential choices,” Prime Time News24 reported quoting Mehboob.
In the meantime, lawyer Abdul Moiz Jaferii highlighted the absence of any pretence of legislation or order within the notification concerning Dar’s appointment on the stated put up.
Nevertheless, Supreme Court docket Advocate Basil Nabi Malik is of the view that Article 90(2) of the Structure does enable the prime minister to behave both immediately or by way of his federal ministers.
