The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Games have all been given wildcard entries.
Col Shujauddin Butt, who was also taken as 1971 India-Pakistan Prisoner of War, died in England on Tuesday.
Irfan Pathan made history on Sunday when he became the first bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first over of a Test.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said, 34, accused of carrying out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, managed to slip under the radar despite them being on counterterrorism agencies' radar for years before Wednesday's attack.
Some Pakistan players have reportedly asked the PCB to omit fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from the squad for the India tour.
New Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has promised to do everything in his power to help disgraced paceman Mohammad Amir realise his full potential after the bowler was granted a visa for the team's upcoming tour of England. Amir will return to England six years after a spot-fixing scandal in a Lord's test resulted in bans and jail sentences for the then teenage bowler and his former team mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif. "He served his time, he's done it," Arthur, who coached Amir at Karachi Kings in Pakistan Super League (PSL), said in his first news conference since succeeding Waqar Younis in the post.
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