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.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals have poured into Afghanistan from Pakistan in recent months. Most of the families are homeless and desperate. Many fled ahead of a November 1 deadline for an estimated 1.7 million undocumented migrants to leave Pakistan.
For more than 50 days, a mass sit-in rally has been protesting Pakistan's tightened rules for travel to and from Afghanistan. Unions and political parties launched the protest in the city of Chaman, near the border with Afghanistan after Pakistan introduced visas between the two countries.
Police in Pakistan have arrested at least 17 suspects in relation to a bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said on December 4.
Police in Pakistan's northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested four men suspected in the "honor" killing of a girl who had posted a photo of herself together with a boy on Facebook.
Spesali Zazai is a women's rights activist who moved to Pakistan with her three daughters after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan. RFE/RL visited Zazai and her two younger daughters, who say they don't want to return home.
Pakistan's military said on November 27 that an Afghan national carried out a suicide attack a day earlier on a security forces convoy that killed two civilians and injured several others.
Pakistani troops have shot dead eight suspected Islamist militants during a firefight in the South Waziristan district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, the military said in a press release on November 27.
One person was killed and 21 others were injured, including Pakistani soldiers, in a suicide attack on November 26 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwestern Pakistan, authorities said.
Eleven people were killed and 10 injured in a fire that broke out at a shopping mall in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on November 25, officials said.
Protesters in Pakistan have blocked a major border crossing with neighboring Afghanistan to protest against Islamabad's refusal to allow document-free travel, which has hit traders and the local economy on both sides hard.
Pakistani demonstrators have slammed the government's crackdown on undocumented Afghan nationals. Slogans on some banners warned of the hardships awaiting women and minorities deported to Afghanistan. In October, the Pakistani government ordered undocumented Afghans to leave by the end of the month.
Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister linked the government’s move to expel Afghan refugees and asylum seekers from Pakistan to the Afghan Taliban-led government’s inability to stop extremists.
Pakistani security forces say nine militants have been killed in a clearance operation after an attack on the Pakistan Air Force's (PAF) Mianwali Training Air Base was thwarted.
Fourteen Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack by unidentified armed men in the country's southwestern Balochistan Province, the military said on November 3.
Authorities in Pakistan say an explosion near a passing police patrol vehicle in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has killed five people and injured 21 others, including three police officers.
Pakistan opened more border centers on November 3 to hasten the return of tens of thousands of undocumented Afghans, two days after the deadline to leave or face expulsion expired.
As Pakistan continues its campaign to drive over 1 million Afghans from the country, RFE/RL correspondent Niaz Ali Khan spoke to some Afghans traveling towards the Torkham border crossing and others who have been detained by Pakistani police to be deported.
Pakistan will hold national elections in early February 2024, the Office of the President and the Election Commission said on November 2
Afghan refugees flood the Pakistani border on November 2, where tens of thousands are crossing into Afghanistan. Some 1.7 million undocumented Afghans in Pakistan face arrest and forced deportation. RFE/RL's Wasim Sajjad says many Afghans have been forced to pay truck drivers large amounts of cash.
Thousands of Afghans continue to flood back into the country from Pakistan as they seek to avoid deportation following a deadline from Islamabad for undocumented migrants to leave, a move the United Nations warned could lead to “severe” human rights violations.
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