ISLAMABAD, April 4 (APP): President Mamnoon Hussain Monday said the government was serious about education and all available resources will be allocated to educational institutions. The President made the remarks while chairing a meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Federal Urdu University at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The Head of the Advisory Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Senate of the Federal Urdu University Muhammad Javed Ashraf Hussain presented his report.

ISLAMABAD April 4, (APP): Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry Monday announced to establish a Child Psychiatric Department at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). He announced this while addressing the inaugural session of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference at PIMS here. Dr. Tariq said child psychiatry is an important subject as childhood memories are long lasting.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 4 (APP): Chairman of the Shura Council of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr Abdullah Bin Mohammad Bin Ibrahim Al-Sheikh along with a delegation called on Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and discussed issues of common interest and ways of strengthening relations between the two brotherly countries. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoyed close fraternal relations pointing out the two countries stood by each other in testing times. “Close and frequent contacts at the highest level have been the hallmark of these relations,” he added.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 4 (APP): Minister for Planning, Development and Reform, Ahsan Iqbal has said that civil servants have to play a key role to keep the growth momentum after country achieved macroeconomic stabilization. He said today, Pakistan has right economic orientation to register higher economic growth to produce surplus wealth and its equitable distribution to end the poverty in the country.  “For achieving further economic growth, we need to become a competitive economy by excelling in productivity, quality and innovation”, Ahsan Iqbal expressed these views while addressing the participants of National Management Course (NMC), said a statement issued here on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 4 (APP): Minister for Finance, Muhammad Ishaq Dar on Monday said the government was determined to achieve 6 to 7 percent growth rate within its tenure. He said all the macro-economic indicators were positive, forex reserves stood at over 20 billion dollars, inflation rate was under 3 percent, there was 18 percent growth in revenue generation during the current fiscal year and it was all set to achieve the revenue target set for 2015-16. He was talking to a delegation of National Management College who called on the Finance Minister here.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 4 (APP): Minister for Information, Broadcasting andNational Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Monday that Panamadocuments have confirmed the stance of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif that they have no assets abroad.Talking to media persons after attending the launching of Islamabad travel guide book here, he said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman ImranKhan has been making baseless allegations against the PML-N leadership butthe Panama documents have proved him wrong. He said that he does not ask Imran to quit politics, and if he cannot apologize, at least he should beashamed of for levelling baseless allegations against the PML-N leadership.

ISLAMABAD, April 4 (APP): Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that she did not own any company/property abroad, and her brother had made her a trustee in one of his corporations, which entitled her to distribute assets to her brother Hussain’s family/children, if needed.  “Nothing more than what my brother has already explained,” Maryam Nawaz Sharif stated in her tweet. “The info provided by (Panama) leaks does not say any wrongdoing involved. The distortion is wilful that a couple of media channels (are) using to settle scores,” she added.