LONDON - Three Court of Appeal judges in London on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Pakistan cricketer M Asif against his conviction for spot-fixing. In their ruling, the judges said they were "not persuaded that there are any grounds, arguable or otherwise, for attacking the safety of the ...

MUMBAIBIPIN DANI- Former Pakistani pace bowler M Asif's appeal against conviction will be heard in UK court today (Wednesday). Speaking from London, Asif’s lawyer Ravi Sukul revealed this and said: "If Asif wins his appeal, he will have no criminal convictions and will be free to enter the UK ...

ISLAMABAD- International Tennis Federation (ITF) Board of Directors will review Pakistan appeal in its meeting to be held today (Tuesday) in France. Pakistan had filled appeal to the ITF against awarding of Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group II tie to New Zealand, which was played at the neutral venue of ...

LAHORE - City police have failed to arrest the gunmen who had attempted to kill a local businessman in the limits of Quad-e-Azam Industrial Estate police station the other day. The victim, Khalid Mahmood, has appealed to Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) to take notice of the police negligence and ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday allowed the regional adhoc committees appointed by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to work till the election of regional cricket associations of Lahore, Sialkot, Abbottabad and Faisalabad are held. The court also recalled its stay order against adhoc ...

MOSCOW:Russia's Supreme Court said Sunday it would hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed former oil tycoon and fierce Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The surprise announcement means that Russia's former richest man - behind bars since 2003 - could walk free years before his ...

CAMBRIDGE: South Korean rapper Psy said he “partied hard” when his dance number drew its first 10 million views on YouTube last summer. Little did he know “Gangnam Style” would become the most-viewed video in the online service’s history, with a global following and ...

Lahore - The Lahore High Court full bench on Monday deferred the hearing of a petition moved by former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf, challenging his disqualification, for indefinite time. The bench passed the orders when it came to know that the All Pakistan Muslim League -- headed by ...

  London DM Hollywood may have embraced the 3D revolution, but film fans seem less enamoured. Ticket sales for the format in the UK have slumped by a third in two years, figures reveal. According to veteran film critic Barry Norman the technology is ‘overblown’ and adds nothing to ...

KARACHIThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would legally examine the dismissal of the appeal made by leg-spinner Danish Kaneria against his ban on charges of spot-fixing. An ECB panel in London had rejected Kaneria's appeal against the life ban, handed out to him over charges of spot-fixing.PCB ...

    LONDON   ControversialPakistanleg-spinner Danish Kaneria failed in his appeal to overturn his lifetime ban from cricket on Friday. Kaneria was banned last year for his role in a spot-fixing plot, but denied all involvement and immediately indicated his intention to contest the ...

KARACHI - The independent panel holding the hearing of Pakistani Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's appeal against the life ban imposed on him by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is expected to give its verdict on the case today (Friday )in London.Sources aware of the case said the four-day ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s jailed former doctor filed an appeal against his conviction for involuntary manslaughter over the US star’s 2009 death.  Conrad Murray said prosecutors failed to prove the self-styled King of Pop was on a propofol drip the day he died from an overdose ...

KARACHI -  The Karachi Electric Supply Company has asked the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation to conserve electricity by efficiently managing the operational timings of lights in streets and parks. It has been noticed that most of the lights remain switched on in streets, parks and playgrounds ...

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf will appeal in the country's highest court on Thursday against an order for his arrest, a party spokesman said.The spokesman for Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League told AFP that if the order is upheld, then he expected the authorities to put the retired ...

Jamshed Dasti, former MNA, has filed appeal in Lahore High Court Multan bench against his conviction in fake degree case.Sources said Session’s Judge Muzaffargarh had convicted and sentenced Jamshed Dasti to 3 years imprisonment and fined Rs 5000 in fake degree case.Dasti was shifted to ...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner, saying it was not authorised to overrule the restrictive military order under which he had been jailed. The appeal was lodged by Jawad Boulos, a lawyer for the Ramallah-based ...

Fast bowler Mohammad Amir will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a five-year ban for his involvement in a spot-fixing scandal, an International Cricket Council (ICC) spokesman said Thursday. "Mohammad Amir told the ICC last week that he will not be pursuing the appeal ...

Supreme Court (SC) has rejected Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s intra-court appeal against the court order to indict him on February 13; hence, he will have to appear before the seven-member bench to be indicted on February 13.After hearing Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza ...

Supreme Court will begin hearing intra-court appeal filed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani through his lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan against apex court verdict of indicting him in contempt of court case. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry while deciding another plea forwarded by Aitzaz Ahsan, ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted an eight-member larger bench to hear the intra-court appeal requesting it to suspend its decision of framing contempt charges against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Feb 9 (tomorrow), report said. The bench would be headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

 To stop by-elections scheduled on February 25, and to remove fake votes from the voter lists, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday submitted to the court miscellaneous appeal to his previous petition.Advocate Hamid Khan submitted the petition on behalf of Imran ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has summoned Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Feb 13 to face the jury in the contempt of case notice served to him over his failure to pursue NRO cases.“The court has ordered to charge-sheet the Prime Minister on Feb 13,” Aitzaz Ahsan said while ...

British Prince Charles has appealed the international community to extend all sort of support for the flood victims of the Sindh and Balochistan who were leading miserable life for more than three months. Their suffering was being overlooked which was a matter of grave concern, he noticed. Prince ...

Swedish High Court refuses WikiLeaks founder permission to appeal against arrest warrant issued over alleged sex crimes. Sweden's highest court has refused permission to Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, to appeal against an arrest order issued over alleged sexual ...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) retained on Sunday the temporary ban on Pakistani cricketer players Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt over spot-fixing allegations, report said. Pronouncing the brief decision after an ICC hearing today, Michael Beloff, who is presiding over the hearing and heads ...

More than 160,000 people have so far received UN's emergency shelter and relief assistance in flood affected areas of Pakistan as the organization launched an initial 41-million-U.S.-dollar appeal to meet the needs of more than 560, 000 people affected by the disaster, according to the UN refugee ...

Fresh rains lashed flood-hit Pakistan Sunday, hampering aid efforts and threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 15 million people in the country's worst ever floods. Helicopters were grounded in the northwest while rescuers rushed to evacuate families in the poor southern farming belt of Sindh, ...

The Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected Thursday an appeal by five former army officers convicted of killing the nation's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a coup more than 34 years ago. Security was tight in the capital Dhaka with more than 12,000 extra police deployed ahead of the ruling, ...

The European Union has rejected requests that it back a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the U.N. Security Council without Israeli consent. Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says "the conditions are not there as of yet" for such a move. The EU's foreign ...