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.
A prominent women’s rights advocate in a conservative northern Pakistani region says unidentified attackers have fired two bullets at her house.
Dozens of tribesmen staged a sit-in in Pakistan's federal capital Islamabad on June 27, the second day of the Muslims' holy festival of Eid.
A tanker truck carrying oil overturned on a highway in Pakistan before bursting into flames, killing at least 152 people who were trying to collect fuel from the leaking vehicle.
Pakistani officials say the death toll from twin explosions in the northwestern town of Parachinar has risen to 67, bringing total deaths from multiple attacks across Pakistan on June 23 to at least 85.
Pakistani officials say three blasts in two major cities killed at least 40 people and wounded more than 100 on June 23 -- the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
Two officials from Pakistan's consulate in eastern Afghanistan have gone missing during a road trip, Pakistan said on June 18.
China's foreign minister is scheduled to visit Islamabad and Kabul this month to discuss ways to improve relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a top Pakistani government official has told RFE/RL.
A suspected U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan has killed a commander of the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, local officials say.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to appear this week before a panel investigating allegations against his family's offshore companies and money laundering.
Authorities in China and Pakistan say they are investigating the Islamic State (IS) extremist group's claim that two Chinese teachers kidnapped in southwestern Pakistan have been killed.
A group of prominent religious scholars in Pakistan has issued a fatwa against suicide attacks, armed insurgency, and the use of force with the aim of imposing Shari'a law.
The main campus of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, northwest Pakistan reopened on May 25 after closure on April 14 following the mob lynching of a student accused of blasphemy.
At least five people including a soldier were killed in northwestern Pakistan on May 22 when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb, officials say.
Officials say an explosion has hit the convoy of Pakistan's deputy leader of parliament as it traveled in the southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 30 others.
At least 13 people have been killed and more than 80 others wounded in clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces near the Chaman border crossing, officials say.
Four militants convicted by military courts have been executed in Pakistan, the military says.
A mob in northern Pakistan attacked a man accused of blasphemy during Friday Prayers and injured several police officers who stepped in to rescue him, police said.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered further investigations into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but ruled that he can remain in office for now.
Pakistan’s military said on April 17 that a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has surrendered along with other members of the Tehrik-e Taliban (TTP) militant group.
A university student killed by a mob in northern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy was buried on April 14.
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