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.
Pakistan's top court has granted bail to a lawmaker from the restive tribal belt who was arrested nearly a year ago on sedition charges he denies.
Police in the city of Charsadda in northern Pakistan say the situation remained tense on November 29, two days after hundreds of angry protesters ransacked and burned a police station and several checkpoints. The crowd demanded that police hand over a man who had allegedly burned a Koran.
Police in northwestern Pakistan say hundreds of people demanding that officers hand over a man accused of burning the Koran have mobbed a police station, setting fire to it and six nearby checkposts.
Pakistani authorities have released the jailed leader of a radical Islamist party who was behind protests that triggered deadly clashes with police.
Pakistani lawmakers have adopted legislation providing chemical castration for serial rapists amid growing public demand for action following several high-profile rape and child sexual abuse cases.
Two policemen have been killed and four more injured in separate incidents in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.
A meeting on Afghanistan with envoys from the United States, Russia, and China has started in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, with the Pakistani foreign minister pushing the international community to urgently provide funding and humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country.
Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, many thousands of Afghans have fled their homes and crossed into Iran and Pakistan, sometimes with the help of human traffickers. Migrants say they're desperate for jobs, food, and medical care as the economy collapses in their home country.
The Pakistani government has revoked a ban on a radical Islamist party behind a protest march toward Islamabad that has triggered deadly clashes with police.
Unidentified persons have destroyed a telecommunications tower in a northwestern tribal district of Pakistan, soon after it started providing Internet service, officials say.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced what he described as "the biggest welfare program in Pakistan's history" aimed at mitigating hardships in a country facing soaring inflation.
Paramilitary troops were deployed in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on October 29 to confront thousands of supporters of a banned Islamist party on a protest march toward the capital despite warnings from the government.
Pakistani authorities used shipping containers and earth-moving equipment to block roads leading to Islamabad and Rawalpindi ahead of planned protest marches by followers of a radical Islamist organization.
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four government employees, including a woman, in northwestern Pakistan, police and local officials said on October 26.
Pakistani authorities say they have released hundreds of activists of a radical Islamist party who had been arrested during deadly clashes with police at the weekend.
The chief minister of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province has resigned hours ahead of a vote of 'no-confidence' against him in the regional parliament.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of a police officer who had taken part in guarding a polio vaccination team, a frequent target of militants in Pakistan.
A radical Islamist party in Pakistan agreed on October 24 to suspend a protest march for three days after Pakistani authorities vowed to drop pending charges against the party's leader.
Roads to Islamabad were blocked by shipping containers as Pakistan's government aimed to prevent a march on the capital by the banned Tehrik-e-Labaik Party (TLP). Police were deployed on October 22 to stop the protest related to a French magazine's caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad last year.
Pakistani police have blocked major arteries leading to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and deployed heavy contingents of officers as the authorities brace for a march organized by the banned Tehrik-e Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party.
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