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Miftah Ismail blames Ishaq Dar for orchestrating his removal

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  • Miftah says Ishaq Dar held TV programmes against him.
  • PM Shehbaz was satisfied with my performance, says Miftah.
  • The way I was removed was not respectful: PML-N leader.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail claimed on Thursday that his successor Ishaq Dar ran campaigns against him for more than six months as he could not tolerate someone else from the party as the finance minister. 

In a podcast on a YouTube channel on Wednesday, the former finance minister said that Dar went on TV and claimed that he would bring the dollar rate to Rs160. He also claimed that the finance minister asked anchors to tweet against him and host TV programmes.

The PML-N leader said Dar is closer to Nawaz Sharif because his son is married to Nawaz’s daughter and was with him in London. He added that Dar used to tell the PML-N supremo that he would bring the dollar rate and petroleum prices down.

Miftah added that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was satisfied with his performance and did not want to replace him. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal was restored, and default risk had also minimised in my tenure, he said.

The finance minister added that even though it was the PM’s prerogative to remove him, the way it was done was not respectful. Nawaz Sharif called him to London and told him that he was being replaced in front of 12 people, Miftah said. 

On a question regarding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, Miftah said that there is no doubt that Imran is a good politician and no one is close to him when it comes to political strategy and narrative building. 

However, he added that Imran lacks policy-making skills, adding that Imran wants to be the PM badly but does not know what to do after becoming the PM. 

Miftah-Dar row

This is not the first time the two PML-N leader have openly confronted each other. Dar and Miftah have been in a verbal war since Miftah took over as the finance minister in April. 

Earlier in October, Miftah took a jab at Dar for slashing the petrol price by Rs12.63 per litre.

In a tweet, the former finance minister expressed his displeasure over the government’s decision not to increase the petroleum development levy (PDL) without IMF approval and termed it “reckless”.

In response to the tweet, Dar said in the Geo News programme “Capital Talk” that Miftah should not worry about the IMF deal as now he has to deal with the lender.

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Significant legislation is anticipated in today’s NA and Senate sessions.

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With crucial legislation on the agenda, the Senate and the National Assembly, the two houses of parliament, have called separate sessions today.

Session of National Assemblies

At 4 p.m., the lower chamber National Assembly session would begin, with a seven-point program.

According to insiders, the NA session would see the introduction of bills to strengthen the highest court’s judges and amend the Anti-Terrorism Amendment.

Additionally, the lower house session will consider the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amendment Ordinance today.

It will also be brought up during the session to draw attention to Pakistan’s inferior rating in the Rule of Law Index.

To ground PIA planes, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) MNA Aliya Kamran will issue a calling attention notice.

The Senate session

The Senate session’s 39-point agenda, however, had also been released.

In the session of the upper house, three new bills will be introduced.

In the meantime, today’s agenda includes the approval of eleven measures as well as the standing committee reports.

Legislators have been instructed by the government to make sure they attend the sessions today.

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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly session is set for today.

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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly is scheduled to convene today at 3 PM.

The session’s agenda has been published, featuring a resolution for the prompt examination of the Ministers’ Salaries, Allowances, and Privileges Amendment Bill 2024.

The agenda included a motion to deliberate on the Land Use and Building Control Amendment Bill and a proposal to enact the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Land Use and Building Control Amendment Bill.

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Imran Khan’s bail request in the Toshakhana-II case has had its objections dismissed.

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In the Toshakhana-II case, the Islamabad High Court has dismissed the objections to PTI founder Imran Khan’s bail request.

IHC instructed the registrar’s office to schedule the hearing for the case for Monday.

Imran Khan’s attorneys, Shaheena Shahab, Ayesha Khalid, and others, arrived in court today as IHC Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb heard the case.

The registrar’s objections to the plea were questioned by Justice Aurangzeb. In the Toshakhana-II case, Imran Khan submitted a bail application, according to counsel Ayesha Khalid.

Justice Miangul said that previous rulings in circumstances comparable to this one adhered to the consistency principle. In this instance, the petitioner was a man, he added.

Bushra Bibi was given bail because she was a woman, according to the justice, and an application like this one was denied yesterday.

Given that the case action date was November and the power of attorney was executed in July, Justice Aurangzeb raised a concern about the timing.

Justice requested the help of Advocate Shah Khawar in this case.

When an applicant was held in jail, Shah Khawar retorted that it was standard procedure to obtain signatures on required documents, such as a power of attorney.

Imran Khan’s attorney, Shaheena Shahab, asked the court to send out notices regarding the bail plea. A judge named Aurangzeb said that the law would be observed.

Following arguments, the court dismissed the registrar office’s objections and ordered that the case hearing be scheduled for Monday.

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