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.
Bibi Rafia has taught for 24 years at a girls' school in Pakistan where there is just one room for five classes. Rafia says it's hard for the children to learn in the crowded environment -- and adds that if they need the bathroom they have to use a neighbor's house.
The top spokesman for the Pakistani Army said on September 5 that since the beginning of 2024 the army has conducted a total of 32,173 anti-terrorism operations in which 193 officers and soldiers have been killed.
Several people were injured and around a dozen were detained during a protest by local government workers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the chaiman of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and a veteran politician, has resigned his seat in Pakistan's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.
Pakistan’s military said on August 31 that four people -- including an army officer -- who had been abducted by insurgents three days earlier had been freed and were “safe at home.”
A Pakistani Army colonel and several members of his immediate family have been abducted, authorities said early on August 29.
Pakistani officials say at least 37 people have been killed in several apparently coordinated attacks in the southwestern Balochistan Province, where security forces have long struggled against sectarian, separatist, and ethnic violence.
At least two children were killed and 18 other people, including two police officers, were wounded in a bomb blast in Pishin, a district in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, a police official told RFERL’s Radio Mashaal.
Pakistan's military says five suspected militants and three troops were killed in a firefight in the Bajaur tribal district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Five people, including two soldiers, were injured on August 16 in an explosion that damaged a police vehicle outside Pakistanian city of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local authorities said.
The former chief of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the military's powerful spy agency, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, has been arrested and had court martial proceedings initiated against him.
Thousands of Pakistani fans came to welcome Olympic winner Arshad Nadeem early on August 11 as he was arriving from Paris at the airport in Lahore, in his native Punjab Province. Nadeem was the best javelin thrower at the Paris games. He earned the first Olympic gold for Pakistan since 1984.
Transgender women have rallied in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, to demand protection from hate crimes. The protesters gathered in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on August 9. Their slogan "Arrest blackmailers!" refers to gangs who kidnap transgender people and extort ransom.
There were violent clashes between protesters and police in Karachi on August 2 as hundreds gathered to demand the return of or information about missing relatives.
Pakistan's National Counterterrorism Authority (NACTA) on July 31 added Hafiz Gul Bahadur and the Majid Brigade to its list of terrorist organizations, raising the number of Pakistani groups on the list to 81.
Pakistani authorities have banned the entry of Afghan drivers through the Torkham border crossing as of August 1 unless they have passports and visas.
With tensions still high in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province following days of deadly protests, Amnesty International has called on authorities to end what it called a “brutal crackdown” in the restive region.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a convoy of United Nations vehicles carrying local employees in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, police told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on July 30.
Flash flooding caused by torrential seasonal rains have killed 11 members of one family, including six children, in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, rescuers said on July 30.
Thousands of Pakistanis have been protesting for nearly a week in the port city of Gwadar, leading to the death of one soldier and the injury of at least 16 others, Pakistan’s army said on July 29.
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