Federal Minister for Finance and was given the additional cabinet portfolios of Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation. In 2014 Dar was given the chairmanship of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Election Reforms and of Economic Coordination Committee by Nawaz Sharif. During the third premiership of Nawaz Sharif, Dar was considered so powerful that he was dubbed the defacto Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, mainly because of his family relationship with Nawaz Sharif. At one point he was serving as the chairman of over 45 committees. Dar was considered the most powerful member of Nawaz Sharif cabinet who in 2016, looked after important government matters when Nawaz Sharif underwent heart surgery in the United Kingdom. In July 2016 the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cleared Dar in an over Rs130 billion corruption case. Dar had previously stated several times that he was facing no corruption case; however, the closing of an investigation against him negated his earlier claims. The NAB had included Dar's case in the list of 179 mega-corruption cases since 2001. It was reported that the case was closed due to "immense pressure" from within the NAB or from the federal government despite the fact that enough evidence was available against Dar for a conviction. Dar was disqualified to hold the office of Minister of Finance on 28 July 2017 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan after then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was also disqualified by the same court following a decision in the Panama Papers case. On the same day Dar ceased to hold ministerial office when the federal cabinet was disbanded after Nawaz Sharif resigned as Prime Minister. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new prime minister in early August 2017, Dar was invited to join the federal cabinet of Abbasi despite his disqualification and an investigation having been ordered against him by the Supreme Court. He was inducted into the cabinet and was re-appointed to the same portfolio in the Government – as the Federal Minister for Finance however with lesser powers as Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in order to minimize the role of Dar in government affairs had bifurcated the Ministry of Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation into three separate ministires by separating Statistics and Privatisation, with Dar heading ministry comprising three divisions – Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs. He was removed from the chairmanship of major policymaking bodies such as the Economic