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.
Pashtun rights activist and political leader Sardar Arif Wazir has died of injuries sustained in a shooting attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district.
Unidentified gunmen have critically injured a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist in an attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district.
In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, life was returning to normal at fruit and vegetable markets after the government began relaxing some lockdown measures it had imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Many vendors and shoppers, however, did not follow official health recommendations and were not seen wearing face masks or practicing physical distancing at the Sabzi Mandi market on April 30.
Militants have attacked a security post in northwestern Pakistan, triggering a shoot-out that killed a soldier and five attackers, the military says.
People gathered for Friday prayers at mosques in Pakistan's capital, defying an official ban on gatherings to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Several mosques across Islamabad were open on April 17 and clerics delivered sermons after religious leaders and authorities failed to reach a consensus on exemptions for the government's COVID-19 measures.
Pakistani police have arrested an ethnic Pashtun rights activist and charged him with hate speech after he spoke during a visit to neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s military says government troops raided a militant hideout in a former Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan on April 10, triggering a shootout in which seven militants and two soldiers were killed.
Afghanistan's government says it will not hand over a captured Islamic State (IS) militant leader to Pakistan because there is no formal extradition treaty between Kabul and Islamabad.
Security forces raided two militant hideouts in former Taliban strongholds in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on April 7, killing seven militants, the military said.
In Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police arrested dozens of doctors and paramedics who refused to work in hospitals amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical workers say they lack the protective gear needed to safely treat patients with the coronavirus. Police beat protesters with batons as they broke up an April 6 sit-in by medical staff from Quetta's Civil Hospital and Bolan Medical College.
A Pakistani court has overturned a death sentence and murder conviction imposed on a British-born militant over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pakistan has announced a financial-relief package of some $6 billion and cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in a week in an effort to counter the divesting effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.
A village in northwestern Pakistan is under lockdown after a 50-year-old man became the first recorded coronavirus-related fatality in the country. Saadat Khan, who had an underlying heart condition, returned ill from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Coronavirus cases in Pakistan have soared to over 900 and there have now been seven recorded deaths.
Seven miners have been killed in an accident inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.
Four members of Pakistan's security forces and seven militants have been killed during a shoot-out in the northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan, Pakistan's military says.
A Pakistani pilot died when his F-16 jet crashed in a wooded area in the capital, Islamabad, the Pakistani Air Force says.
Rallies to mark International Women's Day have come under attack in several countries. In Pakistan's capital, ultraconservatives threw stones as they were permitted to protest on the same avenue as women holding a march. In the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, masked men attacked women as they took part in a demonstration. In Azerbaijan, police forcibly dispersed women marching in Baku.
A passenger bus plunged into a river in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others.
A Pakistani Army colonel and two suspected terrorists have been killed in an exchange of fire in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A women's freedom march in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, was disrupted on March 8 as its participants were pelted with stones from a counterprotest held by Islamists and conservatives. At least seven people were reported injured.
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