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 heaviest monsoon rains that Pakistan has seen in three decades have triggered flash floods that have killed hundreds of people, and meteorologists are warning that more heavy rains are still to come.
Pakistan's electoral body has found that former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party received illegal funding from abroad, a ruling that could lead to both Khan and his party being banned from politics. The PTI has denied any wrongdoing.
A Pakistani military helicopter with an army general and other high-ranking military officers onboard went missing on August 1 during a flood relief operation in southern Pakistan, the army said.
Two women -- one from Pakistan and another from Iran -- appear to be the first female climbers from their countries to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest and arguably most dangerous peak.
The Pakistani rupee slumped to record lows against the dollar on July 19 as domestic political and economic factors weigh on the currency.
Two police officers were shot and killed by unidentified gunman in northwestern Pakistan, authorities said.
Two religious scholars have been killed in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan in the latest in a wave of seemingly targeted attacks.
Authorities in Pakistan say they have found the body of a military officer two days after he was abducted in the country's restive Balochistan Province.
Unidentified armed men have abducted a Pakistani military officer in the country's restive Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities said the death toll from flooding caused by days of monsoon rains has climbed past 45, and was expected to go higher.
Unidentified armed gunmen have shot and killed two traffic-police officers in northwestern Pakistan, police say.
A member of a polio-vaccination team and two police officers who were escorting it were shot dead in northwestern Pakistan, police told RFE/RL.
Locals in northwestern Pakistan mourning four young men gunned down by unidentified attackers the day before have protested against runaway violence and demanded an end to insecurity.
Afghans are being hit hard by an economic crisis that has disrupted essential services and left them struggling to make ends meet. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund the annual budget, are finding ways to squeeze citizens even more.
Afghans seeking medical treatment or escaping threats in their country say their efforts to enter Pakistan are complicated by a thriving black market for visas. Amid reports that visas are being sold for exorbitant prices, the Pakistani embassy has fired 12 staff members over bribery accusations.
A passenger bus veered off a narrow mountain road and plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of southwest Pakistan on June 8, killing at least 22 people, including women and children.
A Pakistani official has confirmed a deal with the Pakistani Taliban under which an indefinite cease-fire with Islamabad was declared following a round of peace talks brokered by Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders in Kabul.
Musicians fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan face arrest and deportation from neighboring Pakistan. Islamabad has been toughening border measures and cracking down on undocumented Afghan migrants and refugees since the Taliban seized power in August.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called off a protest in the capital at the last moment, saying he would give the current government six days to set a date for elections.
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