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.
Unidentified armed men have abducted a Pakistani military officer in the country's restive Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities said the death toll from flooding caused by days of monsoon rains has climbed past 45, and was expected to go higher.
Unidentified armed gunmen have shot and killed two traffic-police officers in northwestern Pakistan, police say.
A member of a polio-vaccination team and two police officers who were escorting it were shot dead in northwestern Pakistan, police told RFE/RL.
Locals in northwestern Pakistan mourning four young men gunned down by unidentified attackers the day before have protested against runaway violence and demanded an end to insecurity.
Afghans are being hit hard by an economic crisis that has disrupted essential services and left them struggling to make ends meet. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund the annual budget, are finding ways to squeeze citizens even more.
Afghans seeking medical treatment or escaping threats in their country say their efforts to enter Pakistan are complicated by a thriving black market for visas. Amid reports that visas are being sold for exorbitant prices, the Pakistani embassy has fired 12 staff members over bribery accusations.
A passenger bus veered off a narrow mountain road and plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of southwest Pakistan on June 8, killing at least 22 people, including women and children.
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.
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