The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) will hear, next February, the appeals of banned Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif against the ICC's bans for spot-fixing. Asif's case will be heard between February 5-7, and Butt's on the 8th, it was confirmed on Monday. The CAS, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, is recognised as the world's highest judicial body for sportsmen and cases involvi ...

LONDON: Novak Djokovic won the latest installment of his thrilling rivalry with Andy Murray as the world number one fought back to secure a dramatic 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory in the ATP Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena yesterday. Djokovic has a 100% record after two Group A matches at the seasonending event and will be guaranteed a place in the semi-finals if France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeats Czech fifth seed ...

ROGER FEDERER started his bid for a seventh ATP Tour Finals title in record breaking fashion yesterday as the Swiss great crushed Janko Tipsarevic 6-3 6-1 at London’s O2 Arena. Federer’s victory took him to 40 match wins in his 11 appearances at the prestigious season-ending event, breaking the previous record of 39 held by Ivan Lendl. The 31-year-old already has a record six titles in this season-ending ev ...

[caption id="attachment_3395" align="alignright" width="281"] PTI Chief & former Captian of Pak Cricket Team Imran Khan[/caption]  Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Imran Khan, the one-time Pakistani cricket super-star and now politician, ducked each attempt by the reporters who pressed him on controversial comments he made about the Taliban during a visit to Brampton Thursday night. Khan has come under fire fo ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3348" align="alignright" width="302"] Pakistan made the Largest Human Flag[/caption] Pakistan has made a record of holding and making 13 records in the shortest period. In this regard on October 22, 2012 Pakistan made two records by preparing the largest national flag and biggest picture of the world in Lahore on Monday. More than twenty four thousand persons made ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3122" align="alignright" width="270"] Pakistan Reached into T20 Semi Final[/caption] India beat South Africa by one run Tuesday but still crashed out of the World Twenty20 as Pakistan went through to the semi-finals by virtue of a higher run rate. Pakistan will meet host Sri Lanka in the first semi-final in Colombo on Thursday while Australia, who went through on r ...

Karachi: Cricket fans in Pakistan broke into wild celebration after their team's win over India in a warm-up game of the ICC World Twenty20, in Colombo on Monday. Having lost to India in the 2011 World Cup and than in the Asia Cup, the warm-up match was taken very seriously by fans here. The media did its bit, creating hype around it. "The people's reaction is understandable. Any match against India is take ...

  By ZaheeruL Hassan [caption id="attachment_2905" align="alignright" width="300"] Saeed Ajmal - World Number One Pakistani Bowler[/caption] Pakistan will not boycott the ICC annual awards ceremony in Colombo , but will raise the issue of Saeed Ajmal's omission from the shortlist of candidates for the awards at the next chief executive's meeting of the apex body. It is mentionable here that  Saeed got 76 Wi ...