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.
Taliban militants in Pakistan have shot and killed two police officers who had been deployed to protect a polio vaccination team in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A Pakistani court has handed a death sentence to former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the country's constitution 12 years ago.
A top U.S. senator said that President Donald Trump is expected to announce a U.S. troop drawdown from Afghanistan this week.
Pakistan has launched a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign as the number of people affected by the crippling disease surged to more than 100 this year.
A passenger bus caught fire after a collision with a pickup truck loaded with fuel in Pakistan on December 13, killing 13 people, officials said.
Dozens of people attended the funeral of a local leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party who was shot dead in the northwestern Swat Valley.
A Pakistani court has indicted Islamist militant Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of deadly 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, on terrorism financing charges, a government prosecutor and a security official said on December 11.
A Pakistani court on December 11 ordered the release of former President Asif Ali Zardari on bail on medical grounds to allow him to seek medical treatment at a hospital of his choice in the country.
Journalists, human rights activists, and politicians have rallied in Islamabad and other Pakistani cities in support of the leading newspaper Dawn, after an angry crowd of demonstrators threatened its staffers.
Amnesty International has joined Pakistani human rights defenders in condemning the authorities’ response to peaceful student protests, calling it a “brazen violation” of their rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has granted a six-month extension to the tenure of the country's army chief after initially blocking the government's decision to extend his term.
Pakistan's top court has given the government one more day to explain why it had decided to extend the term of current army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa by three years.
At least nine people were killed when a bus carrying personnel of Pakistan's navy and their families fell off the road in the southwestern province of Balochistan, officials say.
Pakistan's top court has suspended a government decision to extend the term of current army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa by three years.
A Pakistani human rights activist who was working on cases of human rights violations has been missing for more than a week.
A radical Pakistani cleric and other opposition leaders have called on their supporters to stop blocking roads in the country’s major cities, saying the protest action is harming ordinary people.
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed and five others injured in a bombing in southwestern Pakistan late on November 15.
Police say unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, killing a senior counterterrorism officer and wounding his driver and a passerby before fleeing the scene.
A radical Pakistani cleric has called off a two-week sit-in on the capital's main highway, but told his supporters to start blocking roads across the country.
Four Pakistani soldiers have been killed in two separate bomb explosions in the North Waziristan tribal district, local officials say.
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