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 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.
At least six people have been reported killed and 15 injured in an explosion in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
An explosion in a mainly Shi’ite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens of others, reports say.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai has called for gender equality in her native Pakistan, urging women and girls there to struggle for their rights through education.
Pakistan's government has approved plans to bring the country's semiautonomous tribal areas into the political mainstream -- a move that would end federal rule of the region and extend the jurisdiction of Pakistan's national courts there.
A U.S. drone has killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said.
A senior Pakistani police official says the death toll from an Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing at a crowded Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has risen to 72 people, with more than 100 others wounded.
Two separate explosions have killed at least seven people in northwestern Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say at least 13 people were killed and dozens wounded when a large explosion hit a protest rally near the Punjab provincial assembly in the city of Lahore on February 13.
A junior Afghan diplomat has been shot dead in the country's consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in what officials described as a personal dispute.
A Pakistani university professor and human rights activist who disappeared earlier this month from the capital, Islamabad, is "fine and safe", his brother has confirmed in an interview with RFE/RL.
The death toll from a bomb explosion on January 21 at a market in a mainly Shi'ite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has risen to 21.
The National Commission for Human Rights of Pakistan (NCHRP) has urged the Interior Ministry to locate five rights activists and bloggers who have been missing since last week.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on January 6, wounding five people.
At least six Pakistani security service forces have been wounded by an explosion in the southwestern city of Quetta.
A Pakistani passenger plane carrying 48 people on a domestic flight has crashed on a mountainside in the north of the country, killing all aboard.
Two Chinese engineers were killed by unknown assailants on November 26 in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.
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