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.
Reports from Pakistan say at least 23 suspected militants have been killed and more than 20 people injured in a suicide bombing in the country's northwest tribal region, near the Afghan border.
Pakistani lawmakers are voting for members of the Senate -- the indirectly-elected upper house of the federal parliament.
Pakistan's foreign minister says her country will pursue a gas pipeline project with Iran despite a U.S. warning.
Police in Pakistan say at least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded in a bomb explosion at a political rally in the northwestern city of Nowshera.
Police in Pakistan say four officers have been killed in an assault by suicide attackers on a police station in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
