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.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle close to a residential area in Islamabad on December 23, killing an officer, police said, an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban as the militant group has been stepping up a violence campaign against the government.
Pakistani Army officials say 25 Islamist militants and three security officers were killed when special forces raided a counterterrorism police center in the northwestern city of Bannu on December 20 in an operation to retake the compound.
Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, an estimated 800 Afghan artists have emigrated to Pakistan. Faiz Muhammad Sakhi is one of them and currently teaches music in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. He says he and other musicians face many problems, including police harassment.
Pakistani special forces raided a counterterrorism police center in the northwestern city of Bannu on December 20, killing all Pakistani Taliban militants who had taken hostages inside the compound, officials said.
Pakistani security forces on December 20 launched an operation to rescue hostages held by local Taliban militants at the Counter-Terrorism Police Center in the northwestern city of Bannu, sources told RFE/RL.
A soldier and a passerby were killed and at least 15 other people were wounded in a suicide attack in Pakistan's northwest border area, the military and police said on December 15.
At least six people were killed and 17 wounded in an armed clash between the Pakistani military and Taliban forces near the border area between the two countries.
Nine people, including five militants, two security personnel, and two civilians have been killed in three separate attacks in northwestern Pakistan, the military and witnesses said.
One person was killed and another was wounded when gunmen opened fire on a girls' school in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan tribal district on December 1, police said.
Four people were killed and 26 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a police truck in western Pakistan assigned to protect polio workers, officials said, an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
Pakistan’s new military chief, General Asim Munir, took command of the country's armed forces on November 29 from General Javed Bajwa at a ceremony held in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The banned Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has called off a cease-fire agreed with the government and ordered its fighters to launch attacks across the country.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told thousands of supporters at an anti-government rally that he would fight until his “last drop of blood,” but he called off a planned march to the capital, Islamabad, saying he wanted to avoid “havoc” in the country.
Pakistani President Arif Alvi has confirmed army and intelligence veteran Lieutenant-General Asim Munir to head the country's powerful military, ending days of intense speculation over who would replace retiring General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
Pakistan has reopened the key Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing with Afghanistan, which was blocked more than a week ago amid clashes between the two countries.
Three people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan tribal district, although accounts from officials varied over the cause of the blast.
At least 20 people were killed, including 11 children, when a minibus crashed into a water-logged ditch in southern Pakistan, police said on November 18.
Armed militants have killed six police officers in an ambush in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.
Six Pakistani soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan region late on November 10.
Pakistan says evidence suggests the shooting of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was living in Kenya may have been an assassination as media watchdog Reporters Without Borders called for an independent United Nations probe into the incident.
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