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.
The Pakistani government has welcomed a UN decision to add the leader of a Taliban militant group to a sanctions list
The Pakistani military says three soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in an ambush in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
At least 22 people have been killed and several others injured after a train hit a van carrying Sikh pilgrims in northeastern Pakistan.
Four militants have been killed in an attack on Pakistan's stock-exchange building in the southern port city of Karachi.
hree police officers in northwestern Pakistan have been suspended and placed in custody over the release of a video showing them stripping and beating a man who had criticized them, officials say.
Media rights groups are calling for accountability after two Pakistani journalists accused paramilitary forces of torturing them for their reporting on poor conditions at a coronavirus quarantine center on the Afghan border.
A 22-year-old political-science student from Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has resorted to climbing nearby peaks each day to get an Internet connection and attend online classes. Saifullah Abbas Afridi usually studies in Peshawar, but universities and colleges were closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
In Pakistan, several cities have been hit by fuel shortages after drivers rushed to fill their tanks following a drop in gasoline prices. There were long lines at gas stations on June 11 in the city of Mardan in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan ordered authorities to investigate those suspected of hoarding and to take measures to end the practice.
A roadside bomb targeting a vehicle carrying troops has exploded in northwestern Pakistan, killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the military says.
The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has held a new round of talks in Qatar with the Taliban's political chief.
Pakistan has appointed a new envoy to Afghanistan in a fresh bid to ease tense bilateral relations.
Farmers across Central and South Asia are struggling to save their crops from the largest invasion of locusts in more than 20 years. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that there could be a second wave of locusts if storms on the Indian Ocean cause heavy rains this summer.
At least three people, including two government officials, were killed in an attack in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan district on May 24, administration and police officials said.
Fewer worshippers than in previous years came to Faisal Mosque in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to pray on the Eid al-Fitr holiday on May 24. In Quetta, in Pakistan's province of Balochistan, the main holiday prayers took place outdoors.
A plague of locusts, said to be the worst in decades, has destroyed thousands of hectares of crops across Pakistan. Areas of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Punjab provinces have been the hardest hit, with farmers asking the government to do more to help.
Seven paramilitary troops have been killed in separate attacks in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, the military said on May 18. An eighth soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in the country's northwest.
In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, life was returning to normal after the government began relaxing lockdown measures that were implemented to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Markets were busy on May 12, but many shoppers and vendors did not wear masks or practice physical distancing.
Six Pakistani security personnel, including an officer, were killed in a roadside bomb attack near the South Asian nation’s border with Iran.
Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a rocket attack in the North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, officials say.
Tens of thousands of people in Pakistan have protested the assassination of a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist and political leader who some say was killed by state-backed militants in the South Waziristan tribal district.
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