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.
Six militants and seven members of the security forces were killed in fighting triggered by a militant attack on a military compound in Muslim Bagh, a district in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan on May 12 was granted release on bail for two weeks by judges in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, a day after the Supreme Court ruled as unlawful his arrest that sparked a wave of deadly unrest across the south Asian nation.
Pakistan's government rounded up leaders of the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, arrested hundreds of its supporters and deployed troops in regions where deadly protests ensued as he was ordered held for eight days after being arrested in court two days earlier on fresh corruption charges.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was reportedly charged with unlawfully selling state gifts during his time in office in an Islamabad police compound on May 10 after his dramatic arrest a day earlier. Khan's arrest sparked protests across the country with several people killed.
A special court in Pakistan on May 10 remanded former Prime Minister Imran Khan in custody for eight days after he was indicted in a graft case following his arrest by Pakistan's anti-corruption agency the previous day.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested as he appeared in court in Islamabad on May 9 in one of several corruption cases. Spontaneous protests in Lahore, Peshawar, and other places aimed to block traffic.
Mobile broadband has been suspended in Pakistan amid protests in major cities following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
An angry mob lynched a man in northwestern Pakistan on May 6 after what locals claimed was a blasphemous reference during a political rally in the district of Mardan.
Pakistan is hosting talks on May 6 with China and Taliban-led Afghanistan.
At least seven people, including schoolteachers, have been killed in two separate shooting incidents in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
Islamist militants killed six Pakistani soldiers in an exchange of fire with the military in a northwestern tribal district bordering Afghanistan, the army said on May 4.
Pakistan's foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, departed for India on May 4, where he will attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
One militant was killed and seven others were arrested in raids on hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e Taliban (TTP), near the Afghan border on May 1, the military said in a statement.
A fire that broke out on a train traveling from the southern Pakistani city of Karachi to Lahore killed at least seven people -- four of them children -- late on April 26, railway officials said.
Six Pakistani policemen were killed on April 26 in an exchange of gunfire with a gang of kidnappers in the country's Sindh Province.
Pakistani police say at least 16 people were killed and dozens injured after two explosions destroyed an anti-terrorism police headquarters in the Swat Valley in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, but officials said the blasts were caused by stored ammunition and not terrorism.
At least six people are known to have died in a landslide that occurred in the early morning hours on April 18 in northwestern Pakistan near the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan.
A Chinese man has been arrested in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province after an angry mob accused him of blasphemy and tried to enter a camp near the construction site of the Dasu Dam, which involves both Chinese and Pakistani workers.
A landslide that occurred early on April 18 in northwestern Pakistan near the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan killed at least two people and buried dozens of trucks that were waiting to cross the border, officials said.
Four people were killed and 15 others injured in a bombing that targeted the vehicle of a police superintendent in a marketplace in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on April 10, the city's police chief said.
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