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.
Small children were taught to self-flagellate during the Ashura holiday in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 20.
Pakistan is set to auction off about 100 luxury cars used by senior officials of previous governments.
Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb has exploded near a security convoy in the country's southwest, killing three security personnel and wounding two others.
The wife of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has died at a clinic in London after battling cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 68.
Hundreds of worshipers gathered at the King Faisal Mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on August 22 to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.
Transgender activists staged a passionate protest in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to condemn the murder and mutilation of a transgender woman. The August 20 demonstration came four days after a woman identified in local media as Nazo was reportedly shot dead at a wedding. Police said her body was later hacked to pieces. Two arrests have been made in the case. TransAction Pakistan, an activist group supporting the rights of transgender persons, said it was the 62nd killing of a transgender person in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province since 2015.
Pakistani lawmakers were gathering in Islamabad to elect former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country's prime minister.
Pakistan celebrated its 71st Independence Day with fireworks in Islamabad. People took to the streets of the capital following official ceremonies marking the event earlier on August 14.
Hundreds of villagers in northwestern Pakistan staged an angry protest against the killing of a local man in a police operation on August 14.
At least seven miners have been killed and six others were missing and feared dead after an explosion ripped apart a coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, reports say.
Supporters of Pakistan's opposition political parties have rallied to protest what they claim were fraud and voting irregularities in last month's national elections, directly blaming the country's powerful military.
At least 17 suspects have been detained in a police operation in northern Pakistan to apprehend those responsible for torching more than a dozen schools, officials say.
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP) on July 30 took to the streets to protest the results of the July 25 parliamentary election, claiming the vote was rigged.
U.S. and Taliban officials met this week for direct talks aimed at setting up peace negotiations to end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, a Taliban official said.
Supporters of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan celebrated on the streets of Lahore after his party was reported to be ahead in the general election late on July 25.
Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan has declared victory for his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party in the country's July 25 national elections that were marred by long delays in vote-tallying and allegations of rigging by rivals.
There were scenes in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, after a bombing outside a polling station. The blast killed dozens of people shortly after voting in parliamentary elections began on July 25. (Pakistani police video)
Polls have closed in Pakistan's national elections that were marred by a deadly suicide attack in the southwestern city of Quetta.
A Pakistani candidate Ikramullah Gandapur from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed on July 22 in a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of July 25 general elections. (Radio Mashaal)
A Pakistani candidate and his driver were killed in a suicide attack in the country's northwest, in the latest violence related to the July 25 national elections.
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