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 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.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help arrange peace talks between officials in Kabul and Taliban militants.
A spokesman for the Tehrik-e Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, says the militant group will not negotiate with the government in Islamabad.
A senior Taliban commander and three bodyguards have been killed by a roadside bomb in a remote region of northwestern Pakistan.
Pakistani security forces have seized some 100 tons of a chemical used for making bombs and detained 10 people in a raid in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Unidentified gunmen have killed a secular female politician in Pakistan's restive northwest.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has marked his country's Independence Day with a call to defeat terrorism.
At least 30 people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral procession in the country's volatile southwest.
A little-known Pakistani militant group says it is holding the kidnapped son of Pakistan's former prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Local Pakistani officials told RFE/RL's Mashaal Radio that gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying an army colonel and a captain as well as a local police superintendent in the Chilas district of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pakistani authorities have suspended 27 law-enforcement officers suspected of neglect after militants attacked a heavily guarded prison and freed around 250 prisoners in the country's northwest.
Taliban militants have launched a coordinated assault on a prison in the northwestern Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan, reportedly freeing more than 250 prisoners.
Gunmen have attacked a coast guard checkpost in Pakistan's southwestern Pakistan Balochistan Province, killing seven coast guards and injuring at least five others.
Officials in northwest Pakistan have told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that the death toll from twin bombings has risen to at least 53, with more than 180 people injured.
Pakistani authorities have found 20 bodies in a restive northwestern tribal region.
Tribal elders and shopkeepers in northwestern Pakistan have banned women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative present.
A top Pakistani official will visit Afghanistan in an effort to improve relations between the often-quarreling neighbors.
Police and local residents told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Malik Hashim Khan, his son, and a nephew were traveling in the city of Bannu on June 26 when their vehicle was hit by the remotely controlled roadside bomb.
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