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 violent clash has erupted in northwestern Pakistan between police and residents protesting the authorities' failure to arrest the killers of a local tribal elder.
Pakistani officials say a powerful bomb blast has killed three people and wounded 14 others in the eastern city of Lahore.
The COVID-19 vaccination program in Pakistan's Sindh and Punjab provinces is being hampered by a shortage of vaccine doses. People in Sindh's provincial capital, Karachi, were turned away after lining up in the sun for inoculations.
The family of prominent Pakistani opposition politician Usman Khan Kakar says he has been killed in a “well-planned” attack by at least two assailants at his home in the northern province of Balochistan.
A 70-year-old Muslim cleric has been indicted with sexually abusing a student at a religious school after cellphone videos purporting to show the cleric forcing himself on the student went viral on social media.
Hundreds of residents of Pakistan’s northwestern Bannu district have protested for a 18th consecutive day demanding the government to get rid of militants and restore security in the area.
Opposition lawmakers staged a protest in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, to demand the inclusion of development projects for their constituencies in the upcoming provincial annual budget.
Police say unidentified gunmen have shot dead a lawyer in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Pakistani government has shut down six unregistered, Iranian-funded schools in the southwestern city of Quetta, officials told RFE/RL on June 13.
Pakistani tribal leaders in a conservative border region are complaining about surveillance drones flown by military and security services, saying they are an unwelcome intrusion and a violation of people's privacy.
Dozens of relatives of missing persons held a protest in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar to demand the safe return of their loved ones. People traveled from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to the June 8 demonstration, which took place in front of the Provincial Assembly and the Peshawar
Pakistan has launched a five-day anti-polio campaign to vaccinate more than 30 million children under the age of 5.
The death toll from the collision of two trains in south-central Pakistan has risen to 62 in a crash that has highlighted safety problems in the country's dilapidated rail network that has seen little investment in decades.
Unidentified assailants shot dead two police officers patrolling a residential area in Islamabad, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and police said June 4.
Pakistan and Tajikistan have signed several accords to boost ties between the two nations, including defense and armements.
The Pakistani military says suspected militants in separate attacks raided a security post and targeted a vehicle carrying troops, resulting in the deaths of at least four soldiers and four militants.
Hamid Mir, Pakistan's most prominent TV presenter, says he has been banned from his primetime nightly talk show after he made an emotional speech critical of the military.
Thousands of university employees from across Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province staged a protest to demand an increase in the annual budget for their institutions. At the May 27 rally in the provincial capital, Peshawar, protesters also claimed that a proposed increase in tuition f
Dozens of journalists staged a protest in Pakistan's capital city, Islamabad, on May 26 against an attack on blogger Asad Ali Toor by unidentified armed men the previous night.
A Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the country's powerful military and intelligence agencies has been beaten by unidentified attackers in his Islamabad apartment, the journalist and colleagues say.
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