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.
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.
Dozens of people have been killed in Pakistan's Kurram district in a tribal land dispute that has sparked days of sectarian fighting. The fighting between Sunni and Shi’ite tribes began in the Boshera region on July 24 and has since spread to at least five towns and villages.
A tribal land feud that sparked days of sectarian fighting has killed 35 people in northwestern Pakistan, the local authorities said on July 28.
Pakistan reopened a key border point with Afghanistan after nine months following complaints by residents in both countries.
Thousands of demonstrators in northwest Pakistan are participating in a sit-in protest after authorities fired on participants of a “peace march” in the Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on July 19.
Islamabad summoned a senior Afghan diplomat over a deadly militant attack on the Bannu garrison in northwest Pakistan, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on July 17.
The Pakistani High Court in Peshawar has ruled in a case brought by 95 Afghan and Pakistani citizens that women married to Afghan nationals have the right to both Pakistani and Afghan citizenship.
Pakistani Information Minister Atta Tarar said on July 15 that the coalition government led by the Muslim League would launch high-treason charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan and two aides and ban Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) political party.
An attack on a military base in the northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu has killed at least three soldiers and injured 50 others. The incident began with an early-morning blast on July 15 at the fortified base, and fighting was reported to be continuing hours later with gunmen inside the facility.
At least four soldiers are dead and 50 more were injured after an explosion and gunfire at a military barracks in Bannu city in northwestern Pakistan on July 15, security officials told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
A Pakistani court acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on July 13 on charges of unlawful marriage, his lawyer said.
Pakistan has reached a deal for a fresh $7-billion loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global lender has announced.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 12 ordered that special seats in national and provincial assemblies for women and minorities be given to jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party.
The United Nations' high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, who is on a three-day visit to Pakistan, met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 7.
Hundreds of residents in Pakistan’s Swat valley and Orakzai tribal district held rallies to condemn a newly announced military operation by the federal government, with one movement calling for a nationwide protest on July 7.
Thousands rallied in Pakistan's Swat district on July 5 as the country's northwest was bracing for a counterterrorism operation. The protesters warned that earlier military maneuvers had led to vast displacement and material damage.
At least three people were killed and eight others including two policemen injured in an explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern Mardan district on July 5.
A former senator and four people in his entourage were killed on July 3 in a blast in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a heavily loaded bus overturned in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 30.
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