{"id":28522,"date":"2024-03-08T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=28522"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:54:47","slug":"ishaq-dars-return-on-the-cards-as-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/ishaq-dars-return-on-the-cards-as-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishaq Dar&#8217;s return on the cards as Foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Ishaq Dar, who previously served as finance minister when his party led previous federal governments, is considering a move to the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claim that Dar will take over as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s government. Tariq Fatemi will be designated as special assistant on foreign issues, while Jalil Abbas Jilani, the acting foreign minister, will advise the prime minister on foreign matters.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/gold-rate-today-in-pakistan-8-march-2024.html\">Gold Rate Today in Pakistan 8 March 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sources claim that Dar attended a meeting on Thursday between PM Shehbaz and the former caretaker foreign secretary and minister. While the caretaker setup was running the government in the Center, Jilani gave the premier a thorough briefing during the meeting on developments in a number of foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Dar will hold the position of foreign minister for the first time. One of the more seasoned politicians in the PML-N, he has only held the position of finance minister while his party was in power. After living in self-imposed exile for five years, he returned to Pakistan in September 2022 and resumed his coveted post. According to sources, Dar&#8217;s appointment as the nation&#8217;s finance minister was approved by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/on-international-womens-day-we-celebrate-accomplishments-despite-obstacles.html\">On International Women&amp;#8217;s Day, we celebrate accomplishments despite obstacles<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The event occurred against the backdrop of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s rant against Dar during the party&#8217;s election campaign leading up to the polls on February 8; Bhutto had repeatedly criticized Dar for mishandling the economy while leading the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government led by the PML-N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Ishaq Dar, who previously served as finance minister when his party led previous federal governments, is considering a move to the Foreign Ministry. Sources claim that Dar will take over as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s government. Tariq Fatemi will be designated as special assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[5423,5415,13022],"class_list":["post-28522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif","tag-tariq-fatemi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}