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.
Pakistan's powerful military on November 5 rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan's accusations that the assassination attempt that he survived on November 3 had been orchestrated by the government and elements from the intelligence services.
Nationwide rallies were held by supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 4, a day after he was targeted in an apparent assassination attempt, with protesters blocking key roads in major cities and clashing with security forces.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was slightly wounded and one of his supporters was killed on November 3 when a gunman opened fire at his convoy in the east of the country, his party and police said. Several other people were also wounded.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Beijing on November 1 for a two-day visit to hold talks with Chinese leaders on plans for the $65 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and debt restructuring.
At least two Pakistani soldiers were killed and two others injured in an exchange of fire with militants in northwestern Pakistan, police told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal.
A Pakistani known for being the oldest detainee at the U.S facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was released to his home country on October 29, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan on October 28 launched a so-called "long march" on Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to pressure the government into calling early elections.
Gunmen shot and killed a police officer assigned to guard a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's volatile southwestern Balochistan Province on October 25, authorities said.
A prominent Pakistani journalist who was living in Kenya was shot and killed by police after the vehicle he was in sped up instead of stopping at a roadblock near the capital, Nairobi.
Pakistan's electoral commission on October 21 disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from running for public office for five years on charges of unlawfully selling gifts received from heads of state during his term in power.
Pakistani security forces shot and killed four suspected militants during a raid on in the country's volatile southwest on October 18, authorities said.
The Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has won all six seats that were contested in national assembly by-elections over the weekend, stunning Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif's ruling coalition.
Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador on October 15 after President Joe Biden described Pakistan as "maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world” and questioned the safety of its nuclear weapons.
At least 17 flood-affected people, including children, died in southern Pakistan late on October 12 when the bus they were traveling in caught fire as they were returning home, officials said.
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on the outskirts of the country's northwestern city of Peshawar, an intelligence official told RFE/RL on October 4.
A Chinese national was shot dead and two others were wounded on September 28 when unidentified attackers opened fire inside a dental clinic in the port city of Karachi, police told RFE/RL.
Eight Pakistani soldiers have been injured in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan, officials told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
The World Bank has pledged to provide about $2 billion in aid for Pakistan as the country tries to recover from record rainfall and deadly flooding.
Angelina Jolie, the U.S. actress and UN special envoy for refugees, arrived in Pakistan's Sindh Province on September 20 to visit areas devastated by some of the worst flooding in the country's recent history.
A roadside bomb has killed the former head of a pro-government militia and seven others in northwestern Pakistan, officials said September 14, in an attack claimed by the outlawed Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan militant group, otherwise known as the Pakistani Taliban.
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