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 radical Islamist party in Pakistan agreed on October 24 to suspend a protest march for three days after Pakistani authorities vowed to drop pending charges against the party's leader.
Roads to Islamabad were blocked by shipping containers as Pakistan's government aimed to prevent a march on the capital by the banned Tehrik-e-Labaik Party (TLP). Police were deployed on October 22 to stop the protest related to a French magazine's caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad last year.
Pakistani police have blocked major arteries leading to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and deployed heavy contingents of officers as the authorities brace for a march organized by the banned Tehrik-e Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party.
A global money-laundering watchdog has called on Pakistan to "continue to make progress as soon as possible " to address the one remaining recommendation that is preventing the country from being removed from a so-called gray list of terrorism financing.
Pakistan's foreign minister has visited Kabul for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, pledging to help its neighbor avoid an economic collapse.
Anger is rising in Pakistan, with protests breaking out as inflation hits hard. In Peshawar, the price of naan bread jumped 25 percent in just two weeks as the cost of flour went up for bakeries. The Economist has ranked Pakistan's overall inflation rate as the fourth highest in the world.
At least five members of the Pakistani security forces were killed in attacks in the northwest of the country on October 20.
Protesters in Pakistan marched through the city of Rawalpindi, outraged over the rising price of food, fuel, and common household items. The October 20 demonstration was part of a nationwide campaign of protests launched by opposition parties in Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say a policeman was killed in an explosion in the city of Quetta in the province of Balochistan. The October 18 blast also wounded 13 policemen and four civilians. A police spokesman said the bomb was planted on a motorbike parked near a police van.
Pakistani officials say one police officer has been killed and at least 17 other people wounded in an explosion in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
A Pakistani television reporter has been killed in a bomb blast in the southwestern province of Balochistan that was claimed by a local separatist group.
At least 23 people were killed and hundreds injured after an earthquake hit Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, according to officials. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck early morning on October 7. Hundreds were left homeless in the remote district of Harnai, near the quake's epicenter.
At least 23 people have been killed and hundreds injured in an earthquake that struck southwestern Pakistan in the early hours of October 7, disaster management officials said.
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has rejected claims by Pakistan’s prime minister that the government is holding talks with the militant group to reach a cease-fire.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered border officials to end the practice of requiring a “letter of permission” from the Interior Ministry for all Afghans entering Pakistan via the Torkham border crossing.
A commander of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in northwestern Pakistan in a clash with the military that also resulted in the death of an officer, officials told RFE/RL.
Hundreds of traders rallied in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on September 29 to demand the government scrap new laws enabling tax authorities to disable mobile phone SIM cards or disconnect the utilities of anyone required to file a tax return who does not appear on the Active Taxpayer List.
A statue of Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was destroyed in Balochistan while a paramilitary soldier was killed in separate attacks in the restive southwestern province.
Pakistani officials say at least four paramilitary soldiers were killed in an explosion in Balochistan, the southwestern province where separatist militants have waged a long-running insurgency.
Pakistani activists say police have raided a camp set up by landmine victims in the northwestern tribal district of South Waziristan.
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