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.
Hundreds of trucks, many loaded with perishable goods, were blocked at a key Pakistan border crossing with Afghanistan on January 16. Citing security concerns, Islamabad has been demanding that Afghan truckers have visas before passing the Pakistan checkpoints.
Taliban and Pakistani officials have failed to agree on reopening the busiest border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan following its closure last week after Islamabad imposed a requirement for passports and visas for Afghan drivers.
Senior Pakistani politician Maulana Fazlur Rehman met the Taliban’s supreme leader in Afghanistan, Rehman‘s office said on January 13, the second known meeting between a foreign official and the reclusive Hibatullah Akhundzada.
Hundreds of trucks and other cargo vehicles have been stranded at the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan after Pakistan implemented a requirement for passports and valid visas for Afghan drivers beginning early on January 13.
Five police officers and a civilian were killed on January 10 in separate attacks in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province bordering Afghanistan, police officials said.
A senior Pakistani Islamist politician has met top Taliban leaders in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, in an attempt to revive ties between the two neighbors.
A roadside bomb explosion targeting a police vehicle that was guarding an anti-polio vaccination team has killed at least five police officers and wounded another 22 in northwestern Pakistan, local officials told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on January 8.
Multiple major social media platforms were reportedly suspended in Pakistan on January 7, coinciding with a fundraising telethon of the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Baluch women marched over 1,000 kilometers from Pakistan's province of Balochistan to the capital, Islamabad, protesting alleged extrajudicial killings and disappearances. Protest leader Mahrang Baloch spoke to RFE/RL on December 29 about what she called the "genocide" against the Baluch people.
Unknown perpetrators have set a girls' secondary school on fire overnight in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, police officials in the Bannu district said.
Pakistani electoral authorities on December 28 accepted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's nomination for the 2024 national elections, a day after his Pakistan Muslim League party announced Sharif would be their candidate.
A Pakistani activist who led a march from Pakistan's Baluchistan region to the capital, Islamabad, wrote on the social media platform X on December 20 that she had been arrested. Mahrang Baloch claimed police violently dispersed the march, arresting and injuring demonstrators.
Police in Islamabad used force to disperse a protest by Baluchis in the early hours of December 21 after the protesters marched hundreds of kilometers to draw attention to excessive arrests of Baluchi men and their mistreatment by police.
Hundreds in Pakistan's Balochistan Province continued a protest march toward the capital, Islamabad, on December 20. The protesters accuse the Pakistani security agencies of a string of abductions and extrajudicial killings of Baluch men. The authorities reject the allegations.
Three soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in attacks on a regional police headquarters and two military posts in northwest Pakistan early on December 15, local police chief Iftikhar Ali Shah told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at the gates of a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing 22 security personnel and wounding 34, officials said.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals have poured into Afghanistan from Pakistan in recent months. Most of the families are homeless and desperate. Many fled ahead of a November 1 deadline for an estimated 1.7 million undocumented migrants to leave Pakistan.
For more than 50 days, a mass sit-in rally has been protesting Pakistan's tightened rules for travel to and from Afghanistan. Unions and political parties launched the protest in the city of Chaman, near the border with Afghanistan after Pakistan introduced visas between the two countries.
Police in Pakistan have arrested at least 17 suspects in relation to a bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said on December 4.
Police in Pakistan's northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested four men suspected in the "honor" killing of a girl who had posted a photo of herself together with a boy on Facebook.
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