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 rallied in front of Parliament House in Islamabad to show support for people living in the Indian-administered part of the Kashmir region. Pakistan officially marks February 5 as Kashmir Solidarity Day.
Dozens of Pakistani tribesman gathered in Peshawar February 4 to demand the return of a monthly government allowance that they had received since their displacement from North Waziristan by an anti-Taliban government military operation in 2014.
The Pakistani military says troops have raided a militant compound in the northwestern North Waziristan tribal district, triggering a shoot-out that killed four "terrorists" and two soldiers.
In Pakistan's Swat district, archaeologists have uncovered what they consider to be important Buddhist structures that are up to 2,000 years old. They were found in an area that had been used for cattle grazing until recently.
Pakistan launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive on February 3. The country received 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China days earlier. Senior citizens aged over 65 and patients in Intensive Care Units will be vaccinated in the next phase.
Pakistani officials say a military plane loaded with half a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine has landed in Pakistan, ahead of a planned national inoculation campaign.
The leader of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e Islam, has been killed in a mine blast in neighboring Afghanistan, according to Afghan and Pakistani security sources.
Hundreds of Mehsud tribesmen protested for a second day in northwestern Pakistan on January 28 to demand compensation for the damage caused to their homes during a massive anti-Taliban military operation carried out by the government in 2009.
Dozens of teachers protested in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on January 25 to demand the cancellation of a government order to transfer them back to cities in the provinces. They say that the order is against the a law that protects a married couple from being separated by a job transfer.
A prominent Pakistani female activist who had campaigned for the rights of the country’s ethnic Baluch minority has been laid to rest in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan under high security after she died in exile in Canada last month.
Pakistan's first-ever international snowboarding championship concluded on January 24 with successes being chalked up by both Pakistan and Afghanistan during the three-day event held in Malam Jabba -- Pakistan's only ski resort.
Hundreds of university students gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on January 22 to demand that they be allowed to write their exams online instead of being forced to take them in person in examination halls.
At least four members of Pakistan's paramilitary corps have been killed and five wounded in a bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, officials say.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that high-speed Internet connections will become operational in the tribal region of South Waziristan on January 20.
At least eight people have been killed in a traffic accident in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province on January 20, officials told RFE/RL.
Pakistan's opposition staged a massive rally in Islamabad against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of illegally raising campaign funds from outside the country.
Thousands of opposition supporters have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of illegally raising campaign funds from outside the country.
Pakistani authorities have rearrested a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist who is facing sedition charges almost a week after he was released on bail.
An alliance of the nine opposition parties has announced a fresh series of demonstrations across the country as they pressed ahead their campaign to force Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down.
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