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.
Afghan refugees in Pakistan flooded across the border to return home on October 31, a day ahead of a deportation deadline. Pakistani authorities have ordered an estimated 1.7 million undocumented Afghans to leave voluntarily or face deportation. But many say they will face danger from the Taliban.
Pakistan's government has resorted to threats and abuse to compel illegal Afghan immigrants to leave the country ahead of a November 1 deadline, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on October 31.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has grounded more than 300 flights in the past week due to the company's fragile finances.
A court in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on October 23 indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a case relating to their alleged leaking of secret documents.
Nawaz Sharif, a former three-time prime minister, returned to Pakistan on October 21 after four years of self-imposed exile in London amid economic and political turmoil in the nuclear-armed Southeast Asian nation.
The death toll has risen to at least 59 from an explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, after officials said more critically ill victims died in the hospital overnight.
An explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on September 29 killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 50 others, with officials saying the number of dead is expected to go up.
Eight people -- five children, a man, and two women -- were killed on September 27 after a rocket-launcher round exploded inside a house in the Kashmor district of Pakistan's southeastern Sindh Province, police said.
Bustling traffic returned to Pakistan's Torkham checkpoint on September 15 as the crucial crossing on the border with Afghanistan reopened for trucks and pedestrians. Families with children and people seeking medical treatment entered Pakistan while others were returning to Afghanistan.
Hundreds of Afghan citizens have been detained in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, most of them in the port city of Karachi, for allegedly not possessing legal residency documentation. But many Afghans complained they were held by police despite having the correct documents.
Customs officials reopened a key border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan to trucks and pedestrians early on September 15, nine days after the Torkham checkpoint was closed when a gunbattle reportedly erupted between Taliban troops and Pakistani border guards.
Police in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh have arrested more than 250 Afghan refugees and migrants as part of a new crackdown aimed at repatriating undocumented Afghans.
Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb blast killed a security officer and wounded several people in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The improvised explosive device targeted a passing vehicle belonging to a paramilitary corps. The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility.
A roadside bombing in northwestern Pakistan on September 11 killed a soldier and wounded 10 people, including three civilians, authorities said.
Pakistan's main border crossing with Afghanistan remained shut on September 8, stranding thousands of civilians and halting hundreds of vehicles carrying goods between the two countries.
A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed for a second consecutive day on September 7, one day after clashes between Pakistani and Taliban border forces at Torkham.
Pakistan's caretaker prime minister says that weapons and military equipment left behind by U.S. and other foreign forces in Afghanistan are being used against Pakistan, worsening the security situation in the country.
Pakistani business leaders on September 2 went on strike to protest higher fuel and electricity prices and the general rise in the cost of living.
At least nine Pakistani soldiers have been killed and 20 more injured in a suicide attack that targeted a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan.
Officials in Islamabad say a 22-year-old Afghan refugee woman identified as Mariam, died after allegedly jumping from the fifth floor of a building on August 31.
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