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.
Dozens of ethnic Baluch rights activists have staged a protest in Pakistan's port city of Karachi to condemn the killing of their ethnic brethren by Iranian border guards last month.
Dozens of ethnic Baluch rights activists demonstrated in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on March 3 to condemn the alleged killing of ethnic Baluchis by Iranian border guards in the neighboring town of Saravan last month.
Pakistani authorities have expelled the leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority from the southwestern province of Balochistan after he attended a condolence ceremony for a slain political leader despite a ban on entering the region.
A global money-laundering watchdog has given Pakistan an extension until June to be removed from a terrorism-financing list.
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who they suspected was involved in the murder of four women aid workers in the country's northwest, the army said on February 24.
Suspected militants have ambushed a vehicle carrying four women activists from an NGO in the northwest region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, killing them and wounding the driver.
At least five members of Pakistan's paramilitary corps have been killed in two separate attacks in the restive province of Balochistan, officials said.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia has held talks with Pakistani military leaders about the possibility of postponing the withdrawal of foreign forces from neighboring Afghanistan.
The transgender community in Karachi has found its own place of worship after being harassed or turned away from other churches in the Pakistani city. The First Church For Eunuchs -- a term used in Pakistan for transgender people -- was set up by Pastor Ghazala Shafique of the Church of Pakistan.
Members of Pakistan's Baluch minority held a sit-in protest in Islamabad on February 18, accusing the government of detaining their relatives illegally. The protesters say their loved ones have been taken by the Pakistani intelligence agencies.
A land dispute between two tribes in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district has led to gunfire exchanges between gunmen positioned on hilltops, residents and officials told RFE/RL.
Pakistani security forces have locked down two areas of the northwestern South Waziristan tribal district as they conduct search operations for militants following two recent deadly attacks claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
Hundreds of employees of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority have taken to the streets of Islamabad against the planned privatization of the country’s state-owned power distribution companies.
Multinational naval exercises kicked off under the banner Together For Peace on February 12 in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. The Aman-2021 exercises are held in Pakistan every two years.
Pakistan's military said on February 12 that a group of militants had attacked a security post in the northwest of the country, killing four troops in the ensuing shootout along with four insurgents.
Dozens of disabled people in northwestern Pakistan rallied at a Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan for a third straight day on February 11 to demand jobs, free health care, and education for their children.
Police in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, fired tear gas as thousands of government employees protested on February 10 near the Parliament House building to demand an increase in their monthly salaries.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has directed regional authorities in northwestern Pakistan to rebuild a century-old Hindu shrine that was destroyed in a mob attack in late December.
Dozens of students protested in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to demand that more students from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan province, two of the country's most deprived regions, be admitted to medical colleges and universities across the country.
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