{"id":31655,"date":"2017-11-18T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31655"},"modified":"2017-11-18T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T07:33:09","slug":"finance-minister-ishaq-dar-may-resign-today-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31655","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Ishaq Dar may resign today: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 18 (TNS):<\/strong> Ishaq Dar may resign as the Finance Minister today, sources informed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation has been sent to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. A decision on accepting the resignation will be made after the prime minister consults with PML-N party head Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>In the case\u00a0of the resignation being accepted, Prime Minister Abbasi will take over the portfolio of the finance ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Sources add that Dar made the decision to resign after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) requested for his name to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL).<\/p>\n<p>A corruption reference pertaining to Dar&#8217;s owning assets disproportionate to his known sources of income was filed by NAB in light of the Supreme Court&#8217;s July 28 judgment in the Panama Papers case.<\/p>\n<p>The accountability court hearing the corruption case against Dar \u2014 who is in London to receive medical treatment for his heart condition \u2014 issued non-bailable warrants after the minister failed to appear in court for the fourth time on November 14.<\/p>\n<p>The court also issued a notice to Dar\u2019s guarantor for failing to ensure the presence of the minister and adjourned the hearing until November 21.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft body has also announced that it would reinvestigate Dar in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 18 (TNS): Ishaq Dar may resign as the Finance Minister today, sources informed on Saturday. The resignation has been sent to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. A decision on accepting the resignation will be made after the prime minister consults with PML-N party head Nawaz Sharif. In the case\u00a0of the resignation being accepted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-31655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31656,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions\/31656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}