ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid Wednesday said the opposition’s Terms of Reference (ToRs) were focusing the Prime Minister and protecting their own people.

“Opposition’s ToRs were not based on justice.” While government’s ToRs were not framed to save any person. Opposition has framed ToRs with the sole purpose of saving their own members from accountability, he said while talking to a news channel.

It was a moral responsibility of opposition to send their ToRs to the
government first but their ToRs are being discussed in media for the last 24 hours but the government did not receive it officially.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Ministerial Committee for Construction of Diamer-Bhasha Dam Wednesday informed that around 90 percent land for the construction of dam had been acquired.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit Affairs Barjees Tahir, minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, minister for Inter Provincial Coordination, Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada,
minister for Overseas Pakistanis Pir Sadaruddin Shah Rashdi, Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman, chairman WAPDA Zafar Mehmood, federal secretary of Kashmir Affairs and Chief Secretary of GB.
The committee apprised that entire land of the dam for the storage of water had been acquired while instruction had been issued for obtaining of remaining 10 percent land.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Pakistan and France have
acknowledged the need to work together to address the
continuing threat of terrorism and radicalization which had
affected both Pakistan and France.
It was acknowledged during 12th round of Pakistan-France
bilateral political consultations at the Foreign Secretary
level held in Paris.
Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry led the Pakistan
delegation while the French side was led by Christian Masset,
Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, said a press release on
Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister
(SAPM) Tariq Fatemi and Japanese ambassador Takashi Kurai met here
Wednesday and discussed bilateral matters particularly related to
trade, investment, energy, health and education.
Welcoming the newly appointed ambassador, Fatemi expressed
confidence that Ambassador Kurai would impart a new vigour to the
existing level of bilateral relations between the two countries.
The SAPM briefed the Japanese envoy on the ongoing socio-
economic development projects in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): First-ever Asian Libraries Conference
will be held here at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) in first week of
September this year to promote book-reading culture and strengthen
research-based academic work at higher education level.
It is being organized by the Pakistan Library Association in collaboration with AIOU and Department of Libraries. It will be a two-day event, to be participated by the representatives of national libraries from home and abroad.
It is aimed at enhancing regional cooperation in respect of knowledge
and resource sharing. The conference’s participants will exchange their
expertise and experience to make the library a strong source of academic research.