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 officials say a terrorism court judge and three of his family members have been shot dead in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Hundreds of nurses protested in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to demand improvements in their working conditions. Nurses from across the province gathered in Peshawar on March 30 to demand paid vacations, pension benefits, and opportunities for career progression.
Pakistani President Arif Alvi on March 29 said that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been inoculated with a first dose of vaccine.
Thousands protesting the killing of four teenage boys in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have ended their demonstration in the city of Bannu following overnight talks with government officials which concluded early on March 29.
Thousands of people protesting the killing of four teenage boys in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have ended their demonstration following overnight talks with government officials.
Police in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have halted thousands of protesters attempting to reach Islamabad to press their demands over the killing of four teenage boys in their region near the border with Afghanistan.
Authorities have closed a key road outside a major population center in northwestern Pakistan after residents threatened to take their protest over the violent deaths of four teens to Islamabad.
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.
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