Pakistan, April 30 -- More than one news cycle has passed after a strange cabinet appointment notification hit the airwaves on a Sunday, that too when both the premier and the intended beneficiary were not even in the country, but the frenzy appears far from settled. The decision to elevate Dar to this significant position has raised questions about what could have gone on behind closed doors to spell this development as well as the potential implications for a seemingly cosmetic move favouring a key member of the ruling party.

From the looks of it, PML(N)'s financial wizard Ishaq Dar did not wish to be cast in any smaller role after a decades-old history in the country's political arena. Ergo, controversies to the like of corruption, fi...