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 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.
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.
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