The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday restored former finance minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ishaq Dar’s Senate membership following the directives of the Supreme Court (SC).
A notification was issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan to restore Dar’s membership as a senator. The commission withdrew its notification issued on June 29, 2018, under which Dar’s membership remained suspended from June 2018 to January 2022. The notification read that Ishaq Dar’s membership was restored from March 9, 2018.a
Dar was elected a senator on a technocrat seat from Punjab in 2018, but he didn’t take his oath owing to his stay in London on health grounds. However, on May 8, 2018, a three-judge bench led by former chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar suspended his membership over his failure to appear in court despite repeated summons.
