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 International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $500 million tranche to Pakistan after the lender's Executive Board completed a review of Islamabad's $6 billion loan program.
Pakistani authorities say they will keep educational institutions closed for two more weeks in the capital and other areas where coronavirus infection rates are “higher.”
Pakistan’s decision to allow private imports of COVID-19 vaccines for sale on the open market has triggered concerns that the move could cause inequality and open the door to corruption.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, the country's health minister said on March 20, two days after he received a vaccination, although the Health Ministry and other officials noted he had not been fully vaccinated.
A 14-year-old Pakistani boy has died under unclear circumstances while in police custody in the northwestern city of Peshawar, triggering a protest rally outside the police station where the incident took place.
People over 60 in the city of Karachi received COVID-19 jabs on March 10 as part of the second phase of Pakistan's vaccination campaign, which launched a day earlier. Pakistan started vaccinating its front-line health workers in the first phase of the program in February.
Pakistan has kicked off the second phase of its COVID-19 vaccination campaign, opening it to the general public with priority for people over 60.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, told military leaders during a stop in Pakistan that Islamabad continues to have an important role in the Afghan peace process as Washington bids to save the struggling effort to end the long war.
In Pakistan, rallies and sports events marked International Women's Day on March 8. In Islamabad, hundreds of women took to the streets to demand equal rights, social justice, and freedom for women. In Peshawar, girls from all over Pakistan participated in three days of sports events.
Pakistan's security forces have said that they have killed eight Islamic militants in separate raids on suspected hideouts in North Waziristan.
Pakistan's prime minister won a vote of confidence in parliament amid a boycott by opposition lawmakers.
A roadside bomb targeting a vehicle carrying Pakistani construction workers has killed five laborers and wounded two soldiers.
Pakistan has suspended its flagship cricket tournament after seven team personnel tested positive for COVID-19.
Dozens of ethnic Baluch rights activists have staged a protest in Pakistan's port city of Karachi to condemn the killing of their ethnic brethren by Iranian border guards last month.
Dozens of ethnic Baluch rights activists demonstrated in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on March 3 to condemn the alleged killing of ethnic Baluchis by Iranian border guards in the neighboring town of Saravan last month.
Pakistani authorities have expelled the leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority from the southwestern province of Balochistan after he attended a condolence ceremony for a slain political leader despite a ban on entering the region.
A global money-laundering watchdog has given Pakistan an extension until June to be removed from a terrorism-financing list.
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who they suspected was involved in the murder of four women aid workers in the country's northwest, the army said on February 24.
Suspected militants have ambushed a vehicle carrying four women activists from an NGO in the northwest region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, killing them and wounding the driver.
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