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.
An angry mob has attacked a police station in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province, killing a man detained on allegations of blasphemy, prompting Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to order an investigation into the incident.
Wikipedia was accessible in Pakistan on February 7, days after the country’s media regulator had blocked the free online encyclopedia.
A prominent Pakistani politician who is also a close ally of former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested after police raided his home near Islamabad.
Dozens of police officers protested in Peshawar on February 1 to demand the government conduct a full and transparent investigation of a suicide attack on a mosque earlier this week that killed 101 people and injured 221 others.
Dozens of worshipers were killed in a suspected suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The attack also left more than 150 people wounded. Many of the injured are in critical condition and were taken to nearby hospitals, according to a local police officer.
The death toll in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has risen to at least 100, most of whom are police officers, as rescue crews continue to sift through the rubble and debris inside the partially collapsed building.
Pakistani officials say at least 12 children were killed on January 29 after their boat overturned in Tanda Lake, a popular tourist destination in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
A former Pakistani minister and senior leader of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party was arrested early on January 25 on charges of "threatening and intimidating" the chief of the country's Election Commission and other members of the election oversight body.
A nationwide electricity outage hit Pakistan on January 23, including its two largest cities, Karachi and Lahore.
Security forces in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district have freed four kidnapped employees of a local petroleum company.
Three Pakistani policemen were killed on January 19 in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan, local officials told Radio Mashaal. Gunmen first opened firing at a police checkpoint in Jamrud in the Khyber tribal district, then one person entered the checkpoint and blew himself up.
A prominent lawyer, rights activist, and former head of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association has died after being shot inside a court in Peshawar, police reported on January 16.
Militants attacked a police station with hand grenades and shot dead three police officers in an ensuing gunbattle near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said on January 14.
Wire spools turn in a factory in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, where workers produce cabling needed for electrical devices. Managers hope for investors, but the World Bank forecasts a dramatically challenged Afghan economy, largely cut off from foreign aid since the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Pakistani security forces claim to have killed 11 Islamic militants in an operation in the restive South Waziristan tribal district that borders Afghanistan.
An unidentified gunman killed two Pakistani intelligence officers in an attack in Punjab Province on January 3, Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah reported in a post on Twitter.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has accused Islamabad of endangering bilateral relations after Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah suggested last week that Kabul isn't doing enough to counter the activities of the militant Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group.
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack late on December 28 in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, intelligence officials told RFE/RL.
Mohammad Asif Shakuri and his family moved to Balochistan Province in Pakistan from the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan after his eldest daughters were shut out of university. The Taliban in Afghanistan has prevented many women from attending university since retaking power in 2021.
Pakistan’s army said five security personnel were killed by a roadside bomb in the southwest province of Balochistan in an attack claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army.
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