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.
Last month, the Pakistani government organized a similar meeting that ended with participants unanimously calling for peace talks with militants.
Members of the Pakistani Taliban have attacked the home of rival militant commander Mullah Nabi Hanafi in northwestern Pakistan, with at least 15 persons killed in the battle.
The provincial government of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province says the official death toll from two recent earthquakes stands at 400.
An association of hard-line Islamic clerics running Sunni religious schools in Pakistan has called on the government and the Taliban to start peace talks.
Pakistani officials say a double bomb explosion at a market has killed at least 42 people and injured over 100 more in the country's restive northwest.
A new powerful earthquake in Pakistan's already devastated southwestern region of Balochistan has killed at least 10 people.
A bomb has exploded on a bus carrying some 60 government officials in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 17 people and wounding 43 others.
Difficulties in reaching remote communities and threats from separatist rebels have hampered rescue efforts in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan.
Pakistani Christians are protesting across the country after a double suicide bombing on a church killed scores of people.
Twin suicide blasts at a Peshawar church have killed close to 80 people and injured 100 more in one of the worst attacks on Pakistan's vulnerable Christian minority in years.
At least four people have been reported killed in two attacks on mosques in Pakistan, one near the northern city of Peshawar, the other in the southern port city of Karachi.
A Taliban commander has been killed in an ongoing operation against militants and criminals in Pakistan's commercial hub, Karachi.
The Pakistani Taliban has freed seven abducted workers. A purported spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan said the workers were handed over to tribal leaders in the northwestern North Waziristan tribal district near Afghanistan's border.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has confirmed Islamabad's plan to release a top Taliban commander from detention.
The Taliban in Pakistan has freed two members of the Pakistan Frontier Corps as a goodwill gesture ahead of the expected release of Taliban prisoners, including a key commander.
Police in northwestern Pakistan's Swat district have arrested seven men for attempting to force a 16-year-old girl into marriage to settle a family dispute.
A U.S. drone strike early on September 6 in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area killed six members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, including a senior commander of the group.
A bomb has exploded outside a girls school in the northwestern town of Bannu, wounding 14 people.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has dropped contempt charges filed against cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for remarks he made about judges who monitored parliamentary elections in May.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has completed a visit to Pakistan, where he held two days of talks with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif about bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table with Afghanistan's peace council.
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