Radio Mashaal is a public-service broadcaster providing a powerful alternative to extremist propaganda in Pakistan's remote tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.
More than 20 people were killed and two dozen were injured in blasts in the Pakistani province Balochistan one day ahead of parliamentary elections.
Two blasts near election offices of candidates in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed nearly 30 people and wounded dozens on February 7, a day before the parliamentary vote is to be held in the South Asian country.
As Pakistan goes to the polls on February 8 to vote in parliamentary elections, RFE/RL spoke to one family from the city of Peshawar about their hopes for the future.
The opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party has embraced technology to try to boost its chances in parliamentary elections in Pakistan on February 8.
Dozens of heavily armed fighters attacked a police station in Pakistan's volatile northwest before dawn on February 5, killing at least 10 police officers and wounding six others who fled, authorities said.
At least 40 police officers were injured in a bus-truck collision in the Buner region of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, officials told Radio Mashaal on February 4.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Khan, were both sentenced on February 3 to seven years in prison in an unlawful marriage case that marks the former leader's third prison sentence in a matter of days.
Officials say Pakistani security forces killed 22 alleged Baluch militants this week after they launched attacks in retaliation for Pakistani air strikes on militant positions in Iran last month.
At least four people have been killed and six wounded in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan shortly after a rally of Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI), the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Khan, were both sentenced to 14 years in prison on January 31 in a corruption case, a day after he was convicted to 10 years for leaking state secrets in a separate trial, his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party said.
A court in Pakistan has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi, one of his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party deputies, to 10 years in prison each, after ruling they were guilty of revealing state secrets.
Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have detained several members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) who were protesting the continuing detention of group leader Manzoor Pashteen, who has campaigned for the country's Pashtun minority.
Islamabad on January 28 condemned the killing of nine Pakistani nationals in Iran a day earlier, calling the event "despicable" and insisting on an immediate investigation by Iranian authorities.
Pakistan's ambassador to Tehran, Muhammad Mudassir, on January 27 confirmed the deaths of nine Pakistanis in a shooting attack inside Iran, saying he was "deeply shocked by the horrifying" incident.
Pakistan on January 23 reopened the Torkham border crossing with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, a critical access route for trade and transportation between the two countries, after a 10-day closure prompted by Islamabad's imposing of a requirement for passports and visas for Afghan drivers.
Iran and Pakistan have announced in a joint statement that their respective ambassadors will return to their posts and that Iran's foreign minister will visit Islamabad next week in a sign the neighboring states are rebuilding strained ties.
Police in Pakistan's southwestern Sindh Province has said they arrested a suspect in the 2019 attempted assassination attempt on a top Pakistani cleric, accusing the arrested man of being a "trained terrorist" who belongs to the Zainebiyoun Brigade, a militant group allegedly backed by Iran.
A methane gas explosion in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan on January 19 killed three miners, officials said.
Six people were killed in two separate incidents in Pakistan's restive northwest late on January 19, police and officials said.
Pakistani warplanes launched air strikes early on January 18 on alleged militant targets in neighboring Iran, an attack that a local Iranian official said killed at least four children and three women.
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