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.
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blocked the access road to his house in the capital, Islamabad, on August 22 as they feared he might be arrested. Police charged the politician with terrorism after he vowed to sue a judge and two police officials.
Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, authorities said August 22, a move that is likely to further escalate political tensions in the country.
A young Pakistani woman has opened a rehabilitation clinic to treat drug addiction in the town of Charsadda, 20 kilometers from Peshawar. Saba Khan, a newly qualified psychologist, says she has treated 89 addicts so far since opening in March, including women.
Pakistani authorities said at least 20 people were killed when a bus collided with an oil tanker and exploded.
Pakistani authorities revoked the license of a popular TV news channel days after it aired a critical report about the country’s armed forces, sparking outrage among some Pakistani journalists.
An adviser to Pakistani ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan and the head of the private TV station that aired his recent comments about the country's powerful military will face sedition charges, the interior minister has said.
Three Pakistani soldiers have been killed and seven people injured in an explosion in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district.
The heaviest monsoon rains that Pakistan has seen in three decades have triggered flash floods that have killed hundreds of people, and meteorologists are warning that more heavy rains are still to come.
Pakistan's electoral body has found that former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party received illegal funding from abroad, a ruling that could lead to both Khan and his party being banned from politics. The PTI has denied any wrongdoing.
A Pakistani military helicopter with an army general and other high-ranking military officers onboard went missing on August 1 during a flood relief operation in southern Pakistan, the army said.
Two women -- one from Pakistan and another from Iran -- appear to be the first female climbers from their countries to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest and arguably most dangerous peak.
The Pakistani rupee slumped to record lows against the dollar on July 19 as domestic political and economic factors weigh on the currency.
Two police officers were shot and killed by unidentified gunman in northwestern Pakistan, authorities said.
Two religious scholars have been killed in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan in the latest in a wave of seemingly targeted attacks.
Authorities in Pakistan say they have found the body of a military officer two days after he was abducted in the country's restive Balochistan Province.
Unidentified armed men have abducted a Pakistani military officer in the country's restive Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities said the death toll from flooding caused by days of monsoon rains has climbed past 45, and was expected to go higher.
Unidentified armed gunmen have shot and killed two traffic-police officers in northwestern Pakistan, police say.
A member of a polio-vaccination team and two police officers who were escorting it were shot dead in northwestern Pakistan, police told RFE/RL.
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