ISLAMABAD:Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was sworn in as eighth Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday.
President Dr Arif Alvi administered oath to him at a ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad. Former Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, ex-cabinet members, Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, and other high-ranking officials were also present on the occasion.
Kakar was born in 1971 in Muslim Bagh, an area of the Killa Saifullah district of Balochistan, and received his primary education from St. Francis School in Quetta. He belongs to the Kakar tribe of Pashtun ethnicity. He later enrolled in Cadet College, Kohat. However, after his father’s demise, he returned to Quetta. Since then, he did a Master’s in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Balochistan. Kakar’s career began with teaching at a school in his native town. He joined politics on PML-Q’s ticket for a National Assembly seat in 2008 but later joined the PML-N.
He then served as spokesman of then-Balochistan chief minister Sanaullah Zehri for almost 3 years – from 2013-15. He was later elected to Senate as an independent candidate in 2018.
In the Senate, Kakar remained part of standing committees on finance and revenue, foreign affairs, and science and technology and also served as chairman of the Standing Committee for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resources in the Senate.
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