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 Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says hundreds of women were killed in so-called honor killings in the country last year.
Badam Zari has become the first woman in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to run for parliament.
A suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan targeting a paramilitary police force commander has killed at least 10 people and wounded about 25 others.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has arrived in the southern port city of Karachi to launch a political comeback.
Islamabad says U.S. drone attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty and fan anti-U.S. sentiment.
A bomb planted on a motorbike has killed seven people and wounded at least 30 in a crowded Pakistani market in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan.
Pakistani police say a bombing at a camp for internally displaced people near Peshawar has killed at least 12 people.
A senator with Pakistan's Awami National Party says the ruling party will fully participate in upcoming general elections and won't be intimidated by Taliban threats.
A bus driver reported that armed men wearing military uniforms stopped the bus on March 13 and seized the women and their guard. The guard was later released in the border area.
Pakistani police have arrested about a dozen children suspected of planting explosives for militants in Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan Province.
Pakistan's parliament has passed a bill prohibiting corporal punishment of children.
A security source in Pakistan's Kurram tribal district say a man who tried to elope with a woman there has been stoned to death.
Visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, were expected to attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Iran to begin work on a gas pipeline between the two countries.
A correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal says an unmanned aircraft targeted two suspected militants in the town of Data Khel in tribal North Waziristan.
Armed men have kidnapped a provincial lawmaker in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan Province.
Police in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province say attackers on a motorcycle have shot dead local journalist Mahmud Afridi, the second slaying of a Pakistani journalist in less than a week.
Authorities are looking for clues after the prosecutor-general of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, Wasi Tarin, was reported missing by his family.
Unidentified attackers have shot dead a local journalist in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
A Pakistani policeman has been shot dead while protecting a polio vaccination team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Former Tehran prosecutor Said Mortazavi is set to go on trial in Tehran after being linked to the deaths of protesters arrested in the 2009 postelection crackdown.
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