LAHORE/LONDON: The provincial authorities has appointed Ali Mustafa Dar as Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Synthetic Intelligence and Particular Initiatives, successfully creating a brand new division mandated to drive innovation-led coverage, expertise adoption, and AI-based initiatives throughout the province.
Advisers benefit from the standing and powers of a provincial cupboard minister and have the power to attend Punjab Meeting periods as per the prevailing legislation.
Based on sources within the provincial authorities, Ali — in his ministerial position — would deal with creating and implementing forward-looking initiatives aimed toward enhancing governance, creating jobs, and enhancing supply, with a selected emphasis on rising applied sciences and AI-enabled options.
Ali has an educational background in science and expertise. He studied at College School London (UCL) and the College of Manchester Institute of Science and Expertise (UMIST) the place he earned a Software program Engineering diploma. After learning at Aitchison School, Lahore, he moved to the UK within the 12 months 2000 for larger training.
Because the PML-N authorities received the elections in 2024, Ali has been concerned in a variety of pro-bono country-related work behind the scenes. Having labored efficiently internationally for greater than twenty years, he reportedly performed a pivotal position in facilitating many high-level worldwide engagements in PML-N’s present time period in workplace by convincing a lot of his private contacts to go to and put money into Pakistan, together with arranging visits to Pakistan — each Islamabad and Lahore — by senior international enterprise figures from the tech and actual property trade.
Ali has additionally been a outstanding advocate for autism consciousness in Pakistan. He has been related to initiatives supporting kids with autism and has received reward for highlighting autism-related points on social media, usually referencing his private expertise as the daddy of his son, Ibrahim, who’s aged 18 and has autism.
He’s married to Asma Nawaz Sharif, daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and youthful sister of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. He’s the eldest son of Senator Ishaq Dar — the nation’s deputy prime minister and international minister.
Ali, alongside along with his spouse and youngsters, remained with Dar and Nawaz throughout their interval within the UK earlier than their return to Pakistan, round three years in the past.
Within the non-public sector, Ali is the founding father of HDS Group of Firms, of which he additionally remained the CEO until 2024 earlier than transferring again to Pakistan for good. HDS Group is a outstanding enterprise conglomerate within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with its deal with actual property improvement. The group’s enterprise operations at the moment are overseen by Ali’s youthful brother, Hasnain Dar.
