ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar Tuesday said
accountability of all those who had offshore companies according to
the Panama Papers, should be held.
The opposition parties, however, were avoiding accountability of
their party leaders, whose names were mentioned in the Panama Papers, she said while talking to PTV.
She said the Terms of References (ToRs) framed by the government for the judicial commission to probe Panama Papers were comprehensive. The government, however, was ready to talk with the opposition to sort out the issue, she added.

ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Minister for States and Frontier Regions
(SAFRON) Lt. General (Retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Tuesday said the government was effectively compensating Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The minister during the question-hour told the Senate that the
Prime Minister had approved a summary for the compensation funds in
the form of Citizen Losses Compensation Programme (CLCP) for FATA and so far, funds to the tune of Rs 5 billion had been released to FATA Secretariat under the programme.
He said the Finance Department, FATA Secretariat had transferred
Rs 1935.440 million for 5576 houses as per request received from Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency.

RAWALPINDI May 10 (APP): Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif
on Tuesday thanked Commander of Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (RSMA), Gen John Nicholson and Afghanistan Security Forces for recovery of Ali Haider Gillani in a successful operation in Afghanistan.
Ali Haider Gillani, the son of former Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gillani was kidnapped in 2013 and was recovered on Tuesday morning.

BAHRAIN, May 10 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Bahrain, Javed Malik met Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the son
of King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa and his special representative on Youth, Sports and Charity Affairs on Tuesday.
Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa expressed his appreciation for the positive role being played by Pakistani expats in Bahrain, and said that his country attaches a lot of importance to its relations with Pakistan.
Ambassador Javed Malik said that while the relations between both countries are rooted in history, it would be equally vital to engage the youth from both countries to maintain and expand these ties.

ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada Tuesday said all sports boards including that of cricket were answerable to the parliament.
During a discussion in the Senate on the adjournment motion regarding mismanagement of affairs in the Pakistan Cricket Board, the minister said officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board would be
summoned to the meeting of the Senate’s concerned standing committee in Lahore to ask about the relevant issues.
He said the government was taking concrete measures to promote
sports activities and in this regard Sports University would be set up
in the country.

PESHAWAR May 10 (APP): The European Union is providing considerable funds to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for uplift projects in education especially construction of schools which destroyed due to terrorist activities.
This was stated by Ambassador of European Union to Pakistan Mr.
Jean-Francois Cautain in the one day seminar on the evolving relations between European Union and Pakistan in the Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Hall of the University of Peshawar.
Vice Chancellor UoP Prof. Dr. Muhammad Rasul Jan and Dean Faculty of
Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Adnan Sarwar Khan also spoke on the topic.