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.
An official Taliban statement on August 1 denied Pakistani media reports that the founder of the Haqqani network -- a militant group affiliated with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda -- died about a year ago.
Pakistan has announced that peace talks between Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have been postponed after the reported death of Mullah Omar.
Pakistan's government says a meeting on July 7 between Afghan government and Afghan Taliban representatives ended with an agreement to continue talks toward achieving peace and reconciliation.
Pakistani health officials say more than 25 people died from heatstroke in the southern province of Sindh on June 30.
At least two people were killed and nine injured during clashes between security forces and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bannu town in northwestern Pakistan.
Reports from Pakistan say at least five people died on June 20 as a result of sweltering temperatures in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces during what was one of the hottest days of 2015 so far.
A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle attacked a vehicle carrying a deputy commander of police in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least three people and wounding six others.
Police in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, have dispersed hundreds of protesters who were staging a sit-in in front of the governor's office to protest what they say is a lack of protection by the government.
​Some 200 religious scholars have issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against suicide attacks.
Gunmen have opened fire on a bus carrying members of the minority Ismaili sect in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing at least 43 people in an attack that drew swift condemnation from the Pakistani government, India, and the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community.
As many as six people, including a pro-government tribal elder, were killed as a remote-controlled bomb hit a vehicle in Pakistan's Bajaur tribal district on May 11.
A Pakistani judicial commission on alleged election rigging is due to hear testimony from five witnesses on May 11.
Pakistani security officials say a gun battle between two Pakistani tribes over disputed mountain territory close to the Afghan border was continuing early on May 10, with at least 47 people killed and 25 injured.
At least seven people, including two ambassadors, were killed when a Pakistani military helicopter crashed in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region on May 8.
A Pakistani court has announced life sentences for 10 people convicted of involvement in the 2012 shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.
A bomb fashioned out of flowerpots exploded outside a police station in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on April 24, wounding six policemen and three other people.
The Pakistani military said on April 23 that at least 47 Taliban fighters have been killed in air strikes over the last two days in the North Waziristan tribal area.
Pakistan has reportedly assured China that it will establish a "special security division" for Chinese workers attached to the multibillion-dollar Pakistan-China Economic Corridor project in the country.
Pakistani state media says talks focusing on multibillion-dollar investment deals are under way between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Islamabad.
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