his political career in the late 1980s with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) as a member of its central executive committee (CEC); and, since then he has remained one of closest aides of Nawaz Sharif & a key federal cabinet member of Nawaz Sharif in all of his three governments. Later on, in the first government of Shehbaz Sharif; the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan. After receiving recognition at the national level in 1990 for his suggestions on provincial & federal government budgets, he became the top advisor to Nawaz Sharif on monetary, fiscal, taxation, industrial, trade and national debt management. Ishaq Dar also facilitated Sharif Family to obtain a PKR 100 million line of credit, under the Islamic finance principles of Modarba; which is a special kind of partnership where one partner gives money to another for investing in a commercial enterprise. In 1992, Dar held his first public office under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the Chairman of Pakistan Board of Investment (BOI) with a status of Minister of State till 1993. He served in a pro bono role. He immediately resigned after the government was dismissed by the then President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan under the notorious clause 58 2(b). It is pertinent to note that the clause 58-B has been removed for being undemocratic under Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan. After leaving BOI 1993, he won the elections for the President of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry that same year. Dar made his Parliament debut after running for a seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan in a by-election held after 1993 general election as a candidate of the PML-N for the Lahore NA-95 constituency after the seat was vacated by Nawaz Sharif who had won the seat in two different constituencies in 1993 general election. After receiving 39,483 votes (62%), he was elected to the National Assembly. His tenure as Member of the National Assembly was terminated upon the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1996 following the dismissal of the Benazir Bhutto government by the then-President, Farooq Leghari. As Minister for Commerce and Finance After new snap elections were called for in 1997, Dar ran for a National Assembly seat as a candidate of the PML-N and was successfully re-elected to represent the Lahore NA-97 constituency by securing 61,556 votes. After the PML-N had won a clear majority in the