Return of Dar is 'black day' for Pakistan: Ali Zaidi.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh President and former federal minister Syed Ali Haider Zaidi has termed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader and ex-finance minister Ishaq Dar's return from London as a 'black day' for the country.

'An absconder [Dar], money launderer and fraudster returned to Pakistan to become the federal finance minister replacing another money launderer Mifttah Ismail," Zaidi said during a press conference held at the PTI Sindh Secretariat in Karachi on Tuesday.

Dar returned to the country Monday night after a five-year-long 'self-exile' in London.

Zaidi was accompanied by PTI Karachi President and MPA Bilal Ghaffar, MNA Mahmood Moulvi, MPA Shahzad Qureshi and PTI spokesman on Economy and Finance Muzzammil Aslam, according to an official statement.

Ali Zaidi expressed 'sympathy' for the outgoing finance minister and mentioned properties that Dar and his family owned in Dubai. At the same time the PTI leader challenged the PML-N senior leader to take him to court "if it isn't true".

Zaidi also pointed out that Dar confessed during the Hudaibiya Paper Mills reference in 2000, to money laundering of $14.86 million, and opening two bank accounts under the names of Sikandar Masood Qazi and Talat Masood Qazi for Nawaz Sharif's brother. 'This confession was done freely without any pressure or duress.'

He lashed out at the investment community for believing that Dar is some 'economic messiah' and will get the economy on track. 'But the people of Pakistan know that 'Daronomics' only works for the elite fat cats while the working and middle classes suffer the most under Dar's 'voodoonomics'.'

The PTI Sindh chapter president went on to say that Pakistan was fined twice by the International Monitory Fund (IMF) because former finance minister Dar 'manipulated the economic figures'.

He blasted the 'imported government' for reigning Pakistan 'like the...