Ishaq Dar

Mohammad Ishaq Dar (born 13 May 1950) is a Pakistani accountant and politician who has served as the 6th deputy prime minister and 38th foreign minister of Pakistan since 2024. A close aide of the Sharif family, Dar is affiliated with the PML-N and previously served as the finance minister from 2022 to 2023, leader of the House for the Senate in 2022, and Leader of the Opposition for the Senate of Pakistan from 2012 to 2013. He was re-elected as a senator on a technocrat seat from Islamabad in the 2024 Pakistani Senate elections. He is a proponent of a set of economic policies now known as Daronomics. Ishaq Dar was born in 1950 in Lahore. He attended the Hailey College of Commerce and graduated with a B.Com. He began his career as a chartered accountant in the public and private sector. He entered politics in the 1980s. He was elected to the senate in 2003 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2013. He has served as federal minister for commerce; industries and investment; and finance and revenue.