Ishaq Dar

Muhammad Ishaq Dar
محمد اسحاق ڈار
Dar in 2024
3rd Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 April 2024
President	Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Shehbaz Sharif
Preceded by	Parvez Elahi
38th Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 March 2024
President	Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Shehbaz Sharif
Preceded by	Jalil Abbas Jilani (caretaker)
24th, 27th, 33rd and 43rd 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 (Acting) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Sartaj Aziz
Succeeded by	Shaukat Aziz
Leader of the House for the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 September 2022
President	Arif Alvi Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Shehbaz Sharif
Preceded by	Azam Nazeer Tarar
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 September 2022
Prime Minister	Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Nasirul Mulk (Acting) Imran Khan Shehbaz Sharif
Constituency	Punjab (until 2 April 2024) Islamabad Capital Territory (from 2 April 2024)
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 74) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party	PMLN (1999-present)
Spouse	Tabassum Ishaq
Relations	Spouse
Education	Hailey College of Commerce (B.Com.); ICAEW (Fellow Chartered Accountant)
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد اسحاق ڈار; born 13 May 1950) is a Pakistani politician who currently serves as foreign minister and the deputy prime minister of Pakistan since 2024. He previously served as the country's finance minister 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 PML-N, 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.

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.^[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.