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.
Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, was rocked by a deadly explosion at a train station on November 9. Surveillance footage obtained by Reuters captures the moment of the blast on a crowded platform. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) group claimed responsibility.
At least 21 people were killed and 37 wounded when a powerful blast ripped through the Quetta train station in southwestern Pakistan on November 9, officials told RFERL’s Radio Mashaal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Islamabad at the start of a two-day official visit during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, and other officials, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced on November 5.
Pakistan reported two cases of wild poliovirus infection on November 1 in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, raising the national count for the year to 45, according to the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program.
A roadside bomb targeting a van that was transporting the police guarding polio vaccination teams killed four children and a police officer in Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province.
Armed men attacked a construction site in Pakistan's southern region of Balochistan, killing five builders who were working on a dam in the Panjgur area, near the border with Iran, the region's government announced.
Ten members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) were killed and three others were wounded in a militant attack early on October 25 in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Two transgender people were killed in northwest Pakistan overnight in an attack highlighting an increase in violence against trans people in the country, with culprits rarely receiving punishment.
Thousands of demonstrators held a peaceful protest in the troubled northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu.
Senior officials from around Asia and parts of Europe have begun meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit under tight security in Islamabad amid a surge in violence by various separatist groups in Pakistan.
At least four Pakistani police officers and five insurgents were killed on October 14 when militants stormed a police headquarters in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in the country’s northwest, a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity told RFE/RL.
A series of shooting incidents believed to be linked to a tribal land feud in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have left at least 15 people dead and nine others injured, local elders and district officials told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal on October 12.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns attended the beginning of a three-day Jirga or grand assembly on October 11 near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. The meeting was called by the nonviolent PTM, or Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, to advocate for Pashtun rights.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed 20 coal miners in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province early on October 11, police said.
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its loya jirga (grand assembly) on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the deaths of three of its members.
Thousands attended funerals for three Pashtun activists killed by Pakistani police in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Mourners gathered on October 10, a day after police fired at members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
Mahrang Baloch, a leading rights activist for the ethnic Baluch minority, was prevented from leaving Pakistan to attend a ceremony in the United States, she wrote on social media on October 8.
Two Chinese citizens were killed in a large blast near the airport of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. The attack took place late on October 6 and was claimed by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a statement.
Two Chinese citizens were killed in a large blast near the airport of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, which the Chinese Embassy called a "terrorist attack."
Pakistani authorities have banned a popular civil rights movement that campaigns for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority.
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