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 methane-gas explosion in a coal mine in southwest Pakistan early on February 5 killed four workers, while six others were rescued from the partly collapsed mine, officials said.
Pakistan's military has repelled nighttime assaults on two army bases in the southwestern Balochistan Province that killed up to 12 soldiers and 15 militants, authorities say.
A mother said she considered selling her child amid the humanitarian and economic crisis that has gripped Afghanistan -- she had already sold her kidney. Many others say they have done the same. Elsewhere, a long, dusty line of people waited patiently for cash handouts from the UN's refugee agency.
Unidentified armed gunmen shot and killed two police officers in northwestern Pakistan on January 31, police and local residents told RFE/RL.
One priest from a Christian church in northwest Pakistan has been killed and another injured after their car was ambushed by unknown militants in the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on January 30.
Pakistan's national-security adviser has met with high-ranked members of the Taliban-led government in Kabul, to discuss bilateral cooperation, border issues, and efforts to avert a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, officials said on January 29.
Pakistani authorities say four people have been killed in twin blasts in the volatile Balochistan Province in the country’s southwest.
The Pakistani military says 10 of its soldiers were killed earlier this week in an attack claimed by separatists in the restive southern province of Balochistan.
Afghan singer and artist Goodar Zazai He spoke about the situation in the in the country from undisclosed location to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal.
A Pakistani journalist working for a local TV station has been shot dead while driving his car in the eastern city of Lahore, police said.
Pakistan has appointed its first female Supreme Court judge, a landmark move for the historically conservative and male-dominated judiciary of the overwhelmingly Muslim country.
Pakistani authorities say a bomb blast has ripped through a crowded market in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore, killing at least two people and wounding more than 20 others.
Taliban leaders are working on turning their insurgent forces into a modern, standing army equipped with U.S.-made military gear that was seized during their takeover of Afghanistan in August.
Pakistan's interior minister has confirmed that a January 17 shoot-out in the capital in which a police officer was killed was a terrorist attack.
People living in Afghanistan's Khost Province are facing long waits to get new passports since the Taliban took over the country in August. For migrant laborers who work abroad in Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, the delay is hurting them financially.
The banned Islamist group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) says it is investigating the killing of its former spokesman, who was previously among the central leaders of the group.
Pakistani rescuers were working to clear routes to a snow-bound resort town sheltering thousands of tourists on January 9, a day after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.
Authorities in northwest Pakistan say an officer from one of the country's paramilitary security forces has committed suicide after shooting dead at least other Pakistani soldiers near the border with Afghanistan on January 9.
At least 21 people have died of hypothermia in Pakistan, including nine children, after they were stranded by heavy snowfall near a mountain resort town.
A group of university students have started giving free evening lessons to poor working children in a park in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Members of the organization called Each One, Teach One say they educate children who must work to feed their families instead of attending schools.
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