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.
Pakistani police arrested scores of people after mobs attacked and burned several Christian churches and homes in the eastern city of Faisalabad.
Mobs in the eastern Pakistani city of Faisalabad have attacked the local Christian community, setting dozens of houses on fire and vandalizing at least five churches.
Unidentified militants on August 13 attacked a convoy of Chinese engineers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and opposition leader Raja Riaz agreed on August 12 to name Senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar as caretaker premier to oversee elections, the prime minister's office said.
Pakistani officials say two soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in separate clasehs in the Quetta, Zhob, and Qalat areas of Balochistan Province.
Pakistani President Arif Alvi ordered parliament dissolved on the recommendation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as the country moves toward a general election by mid-November with former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the country's top opposition leader, in prison on a corruption conviction.
Pakistan's police detained dozens of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who gathered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on August 7 to protest against his arrest.
Officials say that two civilians were killed in a suicide car bombing that targeted a security patrol in North Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
Pakistani police arrested Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan at his residence in the eastern city of Lahore on August 5, shortly after a court in the capital, Islamabad, sentenced him to three years in prison for unlawfully selling state gifts during his term in 2018-2022.
When Afsheen Javed arrives for training, she slips off her burqa and slips on the boxing gloves. She is the first female kickboxer in Bannu, a conservative city of around 1 million people in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Gunmen on motorcycles have shot dead two Pakistani police officers who were guarding a polio-vaccination team in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, a police official told RFE/RL on August 1.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 54 people and wounded 100 others at a political rally in northwest Pakistan held by a religious group allied with the government.
Two police officers were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in northwestern Pakistan on July 20 when two suicide bombers attacked a security and administrative compound in the Bara Tehsil neighborhood of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan.
The head of the Pakistani Army has threatened the Taliban-led government in Kabul with an "effective response" if it continues harboring militants who launch attacks in Pakistan.
Four soldiers and at least three gunmen were killed when a group of suspected militants attacked a Pakistani Army outpost in the restive Balochistan region of Pakistan, while a woman bystander caught in the cross fire has also died, the army and a regional administration chief said on July 12.
The Pakistani Army's press department says six suspected militants were killed in multiple shoot-outs in Tank and North Waziristan on June 29-30.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has criticized Pakistan's powerful military for the harsh crackdown on his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) political party in the aftermath of violent mob attacks on the military following his arrest last month.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on June 28, Khan suggested that Pakistan cannot "turn into a real democracy" until the military stops meddling in politics.
Irfan Mehsud has set dozens of records with displays of strength. He and members of his fight academy in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province are serial winners. Mehsud started the academy to help youths who were forced to flee South Waziristan after a 2009 crackdown on Taliban militants.
Authorities in Pakistan on June 12 began evacuating tens of thousands of people who are at “high risk” of an approaching cyclone that is expected to bring high winds along the coastline of the Arabian Sea regions of Pakistan and India.
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