In Brief POLITICS PM Sharif appoints Ishaq Dar as deputy prime minister On 28 April, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appointed Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar as the deputy prime minister “with immediate effect and until further orders.” The unprecedented move, which barely drew criticism from the PML-N’s allies, was potentially made as Nawaz Sharif wanted to have his “confidant” in a key position in the federal...
Joel Jacob
Project Assistant, School of Conflict and Security Studies, NIAS
