It has been a terrible year for Nawaz Sharif and his family to say the least. In the thick of it was also Ishaq Dar, now ex-finance minister and Samadhi to Nawaz Sharif, who blatantly refused to vacate his post, despite being accused by NAB of amassing assets beyond his known sources of income. Those few times displayed a very different Dar who was practically being carried into the court by his entourage. It took some doing to convince Dar, a thoroughly stubborn man, to step aside. Since 2013, Dar made it his singular obsession to keep the Dollar-Rupee parity at an artificially appreciated level between 100 and 104.

Source: Pakistan Today January 02, 2018 08:48 UTC