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.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif canceled a speech to parliament on August 21 after lawmakers unanimously approved a resolution saying it would be unconstitutional for street protests to force his resignation or the dissolution of the legislature.
A leader of a mass protest outside of Pakistan's parliament has called upon his followers to blockade the building as lawmakers inside were meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to discuss the country's political crisis.
A leader of a protest outside Pakistan’s parliament on August 20 called for his followers to blockade the building as lawmakers began talks on the country’s political crisis with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Pakistan's army is urging the government and opposition leaders to resolve a brewing political crisis through dialogue, as thousands of antigovernment protesters reached the parliament in Islamabad.
Thousands of antigovernment protesters have begun marching from the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore toward the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistani intelligence sources say a suspected U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan has killed five militants.
Pakistani security forces claim they have arrested a key commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban militant (TTP) group.
A top Afghan security official is due in Islamabad on June 26 for talks on deepening security cooperation between the two states.
Pakistani police say gunmen fired on a Pakistan International Airlines airplane as it landed in the northern city of Peshawar on June 24, killing one person and injuring two.
A popular female singer has been shot dead in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar.
Pakistani fighter jets resumed an offensive against militants in volatile North Waziristan on June 16.
Three suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's northwest tribal region of North Waziristan have killed 14 alleged militants.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on the country's busiest airport that killed at least 28 people.
Some 50 religious scholars from the nongovernmental Pakistan Ulema Council have met and issued an edict against so-called "honor killings."
At least two Pakistani security officers were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a military vehicle in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
All travelers leaving Pakistan must carry polio vaccination certificates with them or otherwise obtain a vaccination at border crossings. The regulation came into force as of June 1.
Islamic clerics in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore have announced that honor killings are "haram" -- prohibited by Islam -- days after a woman was stoned to death by her relatives for marrying a man without their consent.
The Afghan government says the five high-ranking Taliban officials released by the United States to Qatar in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl should have been freed "with no conditions."
Pakistani police say they have arrested four men in connection with the case of a pregnant woman who was stoned to death by her own family, amid reports that the woman's husband had previously been arrested for killing his first wife.
The husband of a Pakistani woman who was stoned to death for marrying against her family's wishes says police stood by as his wife was killed.
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