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.
Thousands of families remain displaced nearly five years after Pakistan's military offensive against militants in North Waziristan. Officials are defending conditions at the Bakakhel Camp.
Politicians, lawyers, and business-owners went on strike in Pakistan’s southwest province of Balochistan after a regional leader of a Pakistani civil rights group died, allegedly at the hands of police.
At least eight people, including seven police officers, have been killed and 21 wounded in an attack on a local police office in Pakistan, the authorities say.
A co-founder of the Afghan Taliban who was released from detention by Pakistan last year has been appointed as the leader of the militant group’s political office in Qatar.
Pakistan's Supreme Court will decide on January 29 whether to allow an appeal against its acquittal of a Christian woman at the center of a blasphemy row, a lawyer for the woman has said.
A U.S. law firm has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle claims by the Department of Justice that it violated lobbying laws by failing to register work it did for Ukraine’s government.
Pakistan has detained a senior member of the Afghan Taliban, sources in the group say.
Supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif protested outside an anticorruption court in Islamabad as officials sentenced him to seven years in prison on December 24. Sharif was convicted on charges of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income.
An anticorruption court in Pakistan has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison on a charge of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income.
Shehla lives in a village near Peshawar in northern Pakistan where she looks after her ailing father alone. Struggling to pay the rent, she dresses as a man so she can labor on local building sites and avoid the stares and gossip of passersby in this traditional Pashtun community.
Pakistan will charge the detained leaders of a hard-line Islamist group with terrorism and sedition, the government said on December 1.
Pakistani police have killed three suspected suicide bombers who attacked the Chinese Consulate in Karachi before they were able to enter the facility, an incident which Pakistan's government has called a "conspiracy" against the strategic cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing.
Thousands of Muslim worshipers marched in Pakistan to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
A Pakistani government official who was reported missing in Islamabad earlier on November 16 has released a brief video statement in which he claimed he was visiting relatives in the country's northwestern Dera Ismail Khan district.
Protests took place in Pakistan following the apparent abduction and killing of a high-ranking police official. Protesters gathered November 15 in the capital, Islamabad, and in the northwestern city of Bannu after authorities said they found a body believed to be that of Tahir Khan Dawar.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 15 ordered an investigation into the death of a high-ranking police officer whose body was found dead in eastern Afghanistan.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in a surprise visit to Kabul, has called on the Taliban to participate in negotiations to end the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan, saying continued fighting in the war-torn country was "pointless and counterproductive."
Thousands of people attended the funeral of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent Pakistani cleric known as the "father of the Afghan Taliban," in Pakistan's northwestern city of Noshera on November 3.
Islamist hard-liners in Pakistan have ended nationwide protests prompted by a Christian woman's acquittal of blasphemy.
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