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.
Pakistanis who say their relatives have been forcibly disappeared at the hands of Pakistani security forces are demanding the government provide information about their fate.
Afghan high schoolers with dreams of attending university have had their plans derailed by multiple crises. Students who are now getting ready to take university exams say they are badly underprepared and worry they won't be able to continue on their chosen paths.
A mob in Pakistan has beaten a man to death and burned his body over allegations of blasphemy -- an explosive issue in the Muslim-majority country where even unproven allegations can stir up violence and large protests.
Pakistan's top court has granted bail to a lawmaker from the restive tribal belt who was arrested nearly a year ago on sedition charges he denies.
Police in the city of Charsadda in northern Pakistan say the situation remained tense on November 29, two days after hundreds of angry protesters ransacked and burned a police station and several checkpoints. The crowd demanded that police hand over a man who had allegedly burned a Koran.
Police in northwestern Pakistan say hundreds of people demanding that officers hand over a man accused of burning the Koran have mobbed a police station, setting fire to it and six nearby checkposts.
Pakistani authorities have released the jailed leader of a radical Islamist party who was behind protests that triggered deadly clashes with police.
Pakistani lawmakers have adopted legislation providing chemical castration for serial rapists amid growing public demand for action following several high-profile rape and child sexual abuse cases.
Two policemen have been killed and four more injured in separate incidents in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.
A meeting on Afghanistan with envoys from the United States, Russia, and China has started in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, with the Pakistani foreign minister pushing the international community to urgently provide funding and humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country.
Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, many thousands of Afghans have fled their homes and crossed into Iran and Pakistan, sometimes with the help of human traffickers. Migrants say they're desperate for jobs, food, and medical care as the economy collapses in their home country.
The Pakistani government has revoked a ban on a radical Islamist party behind a protest march toward Islamabad that has triggered deadly clashes with police.
Unidentified persons have destroyed a telecommunications tower in a northwestern tribal district of Pakistan, soon after it started providing Internet service, officials say.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced what he described as "the biggest welfare program in Pakistan's history" aimed at mitigating hardships in a country facing soaring inflation.
Paramilitary troops were deployed in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on October 29 to confront thousands of supporters of a banned Islamist party on a protest march toward the capital despite warnings from the government.
Pakistani authorities used shipping containers and earth-moving equipment to block roads leading to Islamabad and Rawalpindi ahead of planned protest marches by followers of a radical Islamist organization.
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four government employees, including a woman, in northwestern Pakistan, police and local officials said on October 26.
Pakistani authorities say they have released hundreds of activists of a radical Islamist party who had been arrested during deadly clashes with police at the weekend.
The chief minister of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province has resigned hours ahead of a vote of 'no-confidence' against him in the regional parliament.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of a police officer who had taken part in guarding a polio vaccination team, a frequent target of militants in Pakistan.
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