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.
The government of Pakistan's southern Sindh province announced a day of mourning after at least seven people were killed at a political rally in the rural Kairpur district.
Pakistani security forces have prevented a convoy protesting American drone strikes, headed by opposition politician Imran Khan, from entering a lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
A senior Al-Qaeda figure and at least four other suspected Islamist militants have been reported killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan.
At least three people were confirmed dead as Pakistan endured a day of protests against a film made in the United States and cartoons published in a French magazine that attack the Prophet Muhammad.
Pakistan's government has called on Muslims in the country to make this September 21 an official "day of expression of love for the Prophet [Muhammad]."
Unknown assailants attacked the roadworkers, all of them Pashtuns, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities say more than 190 people have been killed and more than 60 injured overnight after a fire in Karachi destroyed a garment factory where they had been locked in as workers.
Gunmen have shot dead seven Shi'ite Muslims in two separate incidents in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan.
At least nine Pakistani soldiers have been reported killed in an attack by Taliban militants in remote western tribal region on Afghanistan's border.
The U.S.-led military force in Afghanistan says a senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a coalition airstrike.
Officials in Pakistan say at least five suspected militants have been killed and three others injured in a U.S. drone strike in the Shawal district of North Waziristan.
President Asif Ali Zardari has announced the introduction of local governments in tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan in the coming year.
Afghan officials have given contradictory responses to reports that an Afghan delegation met two months ago with imprisoned former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistan.
Pakistan has received $1.18 billion from the United States for counterinsurgency operations.
The new head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency has met outside Washington with senior U.S. intelligence officials after a long gap in such contacts.
Pakistani authorities have assumed ownership of the land on which Osama bin Laden's house stood until its demolition earlier this year.
Up to eight people are reported to have been killed and others injured in a bomb explosion in northwestern Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border.
Pakistan military jets have attacked four locations in the northwestern Orakzai tribal region, killing an unknown number of suspected Taliban militants.
Authorities say gunmen on have shot dead eight Pakistani police and prison staff after storming a building in the eastern city of Lahore where they were sleeping.
Pakistani media reports say the commander of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, U.S. General John Allen, visited Pakistan on July 1 for the second time in four days for talks on reopening NATO supply routes from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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