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.
Gunmen killed two tribal elders in a remote Pakistani district, bringing to six the number of elders killed in the country’s troubled northwestern tribal region this week.
Hundreds of Christians gathered in the city of Islamabad on December 1 to mark the beginning of Christmas festivities. At the first rally of its type in the Pakistani capital, participants played religious songs through megaphones and chanted in praise of Jesus Christ.
Unidentified gunmen have killed four tribal elders in the remote North Waziristan tribal district.
Afghan forces have killed a member of the Taliban whom Kabul says was the mastermind of a suicide car-bombing that left at least 30 security personnel dead.
Pakistani artist Munir Ahmad struggles to preserve his passion for painting and sculpture.
Four construction workers have been shot dead in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area, police said on November 27.
Pakistan’s educational institutions are to remain closed for more than a month amid a surge in coronavirus infections and related deaths.
Pakistani authorities say a member of the country’s Ahmadi minority has been killed in a shooting in eastern province of Punjab.
A Pakistani court has sentenced the alleged mastermind of the deadly 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai to 5 1/2 years in prison on terrorism-financing charges.
The leader of Pakistan’s hard-line Tehrik-e Labaik (TLP) religious party died in hospital late on November 19.
With his colorful costumes, swords, and twirling moves, Khanzada Asfandyar Khattak is challenging a taboo in conservative Pashtun culture that frowns upon male dancers.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a one-day visit to neighboring Afghanistan on November 19, his first visit to Kabul since becoming prime minister in August 2018.
An Islamist group on November 17 ended the blockade of an entrance into Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, after the government promised to discuss the expulsion of the French ambassador.
Dozens of female students at the Islamia College University in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar took part in the "Girl's Walk Against Harassment" on November 11 to complain that some teachers harass them when when deciding their grades.
Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Islamabad on November 11 to condemn what they see as increasing governmental pressure on media, including censorship, the unfair dismissal of journalists, and the nonpayment of salaries.
Merchants in the Pakistani city of Quetta held a one-day strike to protest the killing of a local union leader. Traders closed their shops in the capital of Balochistan Province on November 10, a day after Allah Dad Tarin was shot dead while returning home from evening prayers.
Russia's Defense Ministry says more than 70 soldiers of a Russian special force unit are participating in annual joint exercises with the Pakistani military.
Hundreds of people celebrated on the streets of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. People chanted slogans and sang poetry in praise of the prophet on October 30.
At least seven students were killed and up to 70 wounded on October 27 in a bomb attack at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, local officials and witnesses said.
A bomb attack on a madrasah in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, killed at least nine people and wounded more than 80 on October 27. Officials said the dead were all adult students at the school, while there were children among the wounded.
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