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.
Officials and relatives say that Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent cleric known as the "father of the Taliban" for having taught some of the militant movement's leaders, has been killed in an apparent knife attack.
Hard-line Pakistani Islamists held protests across the country for a third day on November 2 in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations.
Pakistan's Supreme Court is set to announce its decision on what media described as the final appeal of a Christian woman who has been on death row since 2010 on a blasphemy conviction.
Shi'ite mourners took part in the festival of Arbaeen, also known as Ziara or Chehlom, in Rawalpindi on October 30. Shi'ite Muslims are estimated to make up between 5 and 20 percent of Pakistan's population.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has told Arab leaders that Russia is no replacement for the United States in the Middle East, following Moscow's military intervention in Syria.
Four schoolchildren were wounded after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a school in the capital of Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, authorities say.
Islamabad has dismissed the Afghan president's "baseless and unfounded" allegations that last week’s killing of a powerful provincial police chief in southern Afghanistan was planned in Pakistan.
A contingent of more than 70 mountain troops from a motorized rifle brigade based in the North Caucasus republic of Karachai-Cherkessia is participating in the Druzhba-2018 exercises, Russia's Southern Military District said in a statement on October 22.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told his Iranian counterpart that security forces are searching for 14 Iranian border guards who Tehran says were abducted by militants this week.
The Pakistani village Shah Hassan Khel is struggling to move on eight years after a devastating suicide attack killed more than 120 spectators and players at a volleyball match.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has called on Pakistan to tackle suspected militants who kidnapped 14 members of Iranian security forces on October 16 on their shared border.
A major border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed on October 15 following clashes between the two countries’ security forces, leaving hundreds of people and vehicles stranded on both sides.
Unofficial by-election results show that the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party (PTI) and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) each appear to have won four seats in the lower house of parliament.
Pakistani voters headed to the polls on October 14 to elect 11 members of the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, and fill 24 seats in provincial assemblies.
Pakistan is holding parliamentary and provincial by-elections in a total of 35 constituencies on October 14.
A primary school in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province is so overcrowded and underfunded that most students attend classes while sitting in the dirt of an empty lot.
Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to release a Pashtun rights activist who was detained immediately after her arrival in the country.
Opposition lawmakers staged a sit-in outside the parliament building in Islamabad, to protest against the decision by the new Pakistani government to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Gunmen have shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a firefight after they raided militant hideouts in the mountains of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, the military says.
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