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.
Pakistani activists say police have raided a camp set up by landmine victims in the northwestern tribal district of South Waziristan.
Police in Pakistan have opened a case against an influential cleric after he hoisted the Taliban flag over the building of an important religious seminary in the nation’s capital of Islamabad.
Seven soldiers have been killed in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region, military sources told RFE/RL.
Thousands of journalists converged on the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, for a protest against draft legislation that they say would undermine press freedom in the country. They held a sit-in outside Parliament overnight into September 13.
Lawyers rallied in Islamabad on September 9, to protest against the Pakistani government's recent appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court due to her lower level of seniority at Lahore High Court. If confirmed, Justice Ayesha Malik will be the first female judge on Pakistan's highest court.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns has discussed the security situation in Afghanistan with the heads of Pakistan’s army and military intelligence in Islamabad, long seen as an ally of the Taliban.
Beijing's influence across the region is rising, but China’s interests are also facing a new wave of pushback.
Pakistan's interior minister announced on September 2 that the border crossing into Afghanistan at Chaman would be temporarily closed. Despite the announcement, some Afghans with identity documents showing residence in the districts of Spin Boldak or Kandahar were still able to cross the border.
Dozens of human rights activists gathered in Islamabad to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30. Rights activists say more than 8000 people have been abducted by Pakistan's intelligence agencies in the name of anti-militant operations.
At least 16 people were killed when a fire broke out in a chemical factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Rescue workers struggled to get survivors out of the building on August 27 after dozens were left trapped inside. Authorities say an investigation has been ordered into the cause of the blaze.
Desperate to escape Taliban rule, thousands of Afghans have been flooding into Pakistan from Afghanistan’s southeast Kandahar Province.
Pakistani officials say unidentified attackers have killed three coal miners in the troubled southeastern province of Balochistan.
At least four people have been killed in a grenade attack on an Ashura mourning procession of Shi'ite Muslims in eastern Pakistan.
Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims joined processions in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to commemorate the eve of the holiday of Ashura. Participants rhythmically beat their chests and recited poems on August 18 to mark the martyrdom of Hussain, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad.
Dozens of Pakistani religious minority activists rallied in Islamabad on August 11 against the forced conversion of girls, often as a precursor to marriage. Protestors held banners and chanted slogans seeking government action to stop such conversions to Pakistan's official religion, Islam.
Dozens of Pakistani religious minority activists rallied in Islamabad on August 11 against the forced conversion of girls, often as a precursor to marriage.
Pakistan's opposition has decried the nomination of a candidate with links to a militant Pakistani Islamist group to the legislative assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir with the support of the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party.
There were long lines at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh Province as residents rushed to get their shots on August 1 and 2. Demand for COVID-19 vaccines soared after provincial officials imposed strict new measures to push residents to get the shots.
Militants in Pakistan targeted police officers providing security for polio vaccination teams in two separate attacks on August 1, killing one and wounding another officer in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, authorities said.
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