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.
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.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court will resume hearings on April 6 to decide whether Prime Minister Imran Khan and his allies’ move to dissolve parliament breached the country’s constitution.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has resumed its deliberations on the legality of political maneuvers that led Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections after he faced a no-confidence vote.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has adjourned its hearing of an appeal regarding the country’s ongoing political crisis and promised to reconvene on April 5.
Supporters of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan rallied in the capital, Islamabad, on April 3 after the national parliament and regional legislatures were dissolved. President Arif Alvi took the step in consultation with Khan as his party, Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf, lost its majority in parliament.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has “advised the president to dissolve” the national legislature and four provincial assemblies.
At least one person was killed and dozens more injured in an explosion at the Sarai Shahzadaa foreign-exchange market in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
At least three Pakistani soldiers and as many attackers were killed in a firefight in northwestern Pakistan early on March 30, security sources told RFE/RL.
Major opposition parties in Pakistan have presented a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
At least four Pakistani soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded on March 15 when an improvised explosive device detonated near a convoy of security forces in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.
A roadside bomb targeted a security convoy in southwestern Pakistan on March 8, killing at least five members of the security forces and wounding 28 people, officials said.
A court in Pakistan's Sindh Province has sentenced a Hindu college teacher to life in prison on blasphemy charges and also fined him $300.
Two members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps were wounded in an explosion in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on February 7.
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