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.
Pakistani authorities say a member of the country’s Ahmadi minority has been killed in a shooting in eastern province of Punjab.
A Pakistani court has sentenced the alleged mastermind of the deadly 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai to 5 1/2 years in prison on terrorism-financing charges.
The leader of Pakistan’s hard-line Tehrik-e Labaik (TLP) religious party died in hospital late on November 19.
With his colorful costumes, swords, and twirling moves, Khanzada Asfandyar Khattak is challenging a taboo in conservative Pashtun culture that frowns upon male dancers.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a one-day visit to neighboring Afghanistan on November 19, his first visit to Kabul since becoming prime minister in August 2018.
An Islamist group on November 17 ended the blockade of an entrance into Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, after the government promised to discuss the expulsion of the French ambassador.
Dozens of female students at the Islamia College University in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar took part in the "Girl's Walk Against Harassment" on November 11 to complain that some teachers harass them when when deciding their grades.
Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Islamabad on November 11 to condemn what they see as increasing governmental pressure on media, including censorship, the unfair dismissal of journalists, and the nonpayment of salaries.
Merchants in the Pakistani city of Quetta held a one-day strike to protest the killing of a local union leader. Traders closed their shops in the capital of Balochistan Province on November 10, a day after Allah Dad Tarin was shot dead while returning home from evening prayers.
Russia's Defense Ministry says more than 70 soldiers of a Russian special force unit are participating in annual joint exercises with the Pakistani military.
Hundreds of people celebrated on the streets of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. People chanted slogans and sang poetry in praise of the prophet on October 30.
At least seven students were killed and up to 70 wounded on October 27 in a bomb attack at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, local officials and witnesses said.
A bomb attack on a madrasah in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, killed at least nine people and wounded more than 80 on October 27. Officials said the dead were all adult students at the school, while there were children among the wounded.
An opposition rally held on October 25 in Quetta called on Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to resign.
At least three people have been killed in the explosion of an improvised device in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province, despite heightened security as opposition parties held a large rally in another part of the city.
A Pakistani lawmaker says he has been stopped by authorities upon his arrival in the southwestern city of Quetta to take part in an anti-government rally.
Police in Pakistan's southwestern province of Pakistan say they have killed four "terrorists" from banned group during an overnight security operation.
A television journalist in Pakistan has gone missing after reporting on the presence of paramilitary troops during the controversial arrest of a relative of Nawaz Sharif, the country's exiled former prime minister.
A global financial watchdog has decided to keep Pakistan on its terror financing watch list, saying the country had not completely implemented a set of guidelines.
Dozens of Pakistani journalists were joined by parliamentarians in Islamabad on October 22 to protest against what they call "enforced censorship" and to demand the reopening of television channels suspended from broadcasting by Pakistan's state media regulator.
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