According to the party decidi­on, Ishaq Dar is arriving back to Pakistan along with Prime Min­ister Shehbaz Sharif and will take oath as senator on coming Tuesday. Later, Ishaq Dar also told a private TV channel that he will be coming back to Pakistan along with PM Shehbaz on Sun­day and will take oath as Senator on Tuesday, adding that after the decision of PML-N bigwigs, he would take oath as Finance Min­ister on Wednesday.

Information Minister Marri­yum Aurangzeb, outgoing fi­nance minister Miftah Ismail and other party leaders includ­ing Ishaq Dar and Malik Mu­hammad Ahmad Khan were also present during the meeting.

In the meeting, the overall po­litical situation of the country was discussed in detail.

The outgoing finance minister Miftah Ismael submitted his res­ignation to the PML-N supreme leader. “I worked to the best of my ability for four months, and remained loyal to the party and the country,” the PML-N state­ment quoted Miftah as saying during the meeting.

The party spokesperson shared that while submitting his resignation, Miftah said that the ministry was mandated to him by Nawaz and that he had made him the minister.

Nawaz Sharif appreciated the efforts made by Miftah for performing as finance minis­ter under the “tough econom­ic challenges”. On the occasion, Shehbaz Sharif and Nawaz Shar­if nominated Dar as the new fi­nance minister of the country.The meeting was of the view that the incumbent government had to “put out the fire of economic disaster” caused by the pre­vious PTI-led regime. Earlier, Sharif brothers had decided that Dar would replace the incumbent finance minister Miftah Is­mail. The decision to appoint Dar as financial czar appears to be a desperate move by the bigwigs of the PML-N not only to revive the country’s faltering economy but also to regain its lost politi­cal capital ahead of the next general elections.