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 authorities have found 20 bodies in a restive northwestern tribal region.
Tribal elders and shopkeepers in northwestern Pakistan have banned women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative present.
A top Pakistani official will visit Afghanistan in an effort to improve relations between the often-quarreling neighbors.
Police and local residents told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Malik Hashim Khan, his son, and a nephew were traveling in the city of Bannu on June 26 when their vehicle was hit by the remotely controlled roadside bomb.
Gunmen have stormed a hotel in northern Pakistan. Police say nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani were killed in the raid early on June 23 in Gilgit-Baltistan Province.
Pakistan's government has confirmed reports that it helped mediate contacts between the Taliban and the United States that are expected to lead to direct talks in Doha, Qatar.
Five Pakistani Army soldiers reportedly have been killed during an attack on their military convoy on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people.
A government official in the Pakistani city of Quetta has been killed in a gun battle in a hospital where female survivors of a deadly bus bombing were receiving treatment.
Pakistani officials say three doctors, their driver, and another man traveling with them have been kidnapped in southern Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
Jehangir Azam Wazir, a deputy district chief of Jamrud tribal area where the incident took place, said six people on the trucks were killed in the June 10 assault.
Unidentified gunmen have killed a newly elected lawmaker in northwestern Pakistan.
Taliban sources tell RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chose Khan Sayed as the TTP's new No. 2, shortly after Rehman's funeral.
RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal, quoting local and Taliban sources, reports that Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's second in command, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan.
Pakistani authorities have suspended a UN-supported polio vaccination program in the northwest of the country after gunmen attacked two female polio workers, killing one and injuring another.
A Peshawar city police superintendent said local religious leader Haji Hidayatullah survived the attack but his driver and bodyguard were killed.
A court in northwestern Pakistan has imposed one of the longest prison sentences in the country's history to two men for their part in terrorist attacks on Shi'ite Muslim mourners.
The Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI) party won a majority of seats in the northwestern province's assembly in the May 11 general elections.
Officials say the police chief of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province has narrowly escaped a suicide bomb attack.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has condemned the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s son, calling it a “reprehensible act of a cowardly enemy.”
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