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 Pakistani official has confirmed a deal with the Pakistani Taliban under which an indefinite cease-fire with Islamabad was declared following a round of peace talks brokered by Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders in Kabul.
Musicians fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan face arrest and deportation from neighboring Pakistan. Islamabad has been toughening border measures and cracking down on undocumented Afghan migrants and refugees since the Taliban seized power in August.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called off a protest in the capital at the last moment, saying he would give the current government six days to set a date for elections.
Clashes marked protests in Islamabad between supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistani security forces late on May 25. The following day, police advanced on the remaining protesters, who largely dispersed after Khan issued a six-day ultimatum to the government to call an election.
Pakistani police fired tear gas and clashed with supporters of Imran Khan as they stopped a rally organized by the former prime minister from reaching Islamabad.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan led a convoy of vehicles and supporters in Peshawar on May 25 heading for the capital, Islamabad, to protest against Pakistan's new government and to push for early elections.
Pakistan's former human rights minister has been arrested by anti-corruption police, authorities in Islamabad confirmed on May 21, after her daughter and another former minister said she had been mistreated during the arrest.
One person was killed and at least 13 others injured -- four of them critically -- by an explosion that ripped through a busy market in the Pakistani port city of Karachi late on May 12.
A blast has destroyed a van inside a university campus in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing three Chinese citizens and their Pakistani driver, officials said.
Three Chinese citizens and their Pakistani driver were killed on April 26 in a blast carried out by an apparent suicide bomber on a van belonging to a Chinese language and cultural center that is part of the University of Karachi, officials said.
The members of Pakistan's new cabinet have taken their oaths in a ceremony held in the capital, Islamabad.
Islamabad has urged the Taliban-led government in Kabul to take “stern actions” against militants launching cross-border attacks on Pakistan, a day after the Taliban accused Pakistan of carrying out deadly air strikes inside Afghanistan.
Former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has been elected speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly as a new ruling coalition took control of the lower house of parliament after Imran Khan and his government was ousted in a no-confidence vote a week ago.
Witnesses say dozens of people, including women and children, have been killed in eastern Afghanistan by Pakistani air strikes.
Pakistan's military has dismissed the accusation of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan that the United States conspired to topple him in a parliamentary vote of confidence.
Militants from a banned Pakistani group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed five police officers and wounded four others in a northwestern region.
Pakistan's parliament has elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the country's new prime minister, a day after incumbent Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote.
Supporters of Pakistani opposition parties celebrated early on April 10 outside the parliament in Islamabad after it passed a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) gathered parliamentary support to oust Khan.
A crucial session of Pakistan's National Assembly has begun to vote on a no-confidence motion that could seal the fate of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a move to block a vote of no-confidence to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan was unconstitutional.
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