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 students in the homeland have protested attacks on their compatriots in Kyrgyzstan. The rallies held on May 18 urged Pakistan to ensure safety for its students in the Central Asian country. Late on May 18, a special flight arrived in Lahore with Pakistani students from Bishkek.
Top officials from Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan have met after mob violence in Bishkek against foreign students injured at least 29 people, including several foreigners, and triggered diplomatic tensions with Pakistan and India.
An Afghan refugee in Bishkek says he fears for his safety after violent mobs attacked foreigners in the Kyrgyz capital. The assault was allegedly directed at international students and migrants. Victims have said Pakistani and Indian students were targeted.
Assailants have broken into foreign students' housing in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Amateur footage filmed on the night of May 17-18 and verified by RFE/RL shows crowds outside hostels accommodating foreigners, assailants beating people, and the damaged interior of Pakistani students' rooms.
The Kyrgyz government said 28 people were injured in mob violence in Bishkek on the night of May 17-18 that appeared to be directed against foreign students and migrants. The violence prompted diplomatic reactions from Pakistan and India, who warned their students to remain indoors.
The Kyrgyz government said four foreign citizens have been arrested following mob violence in Bishkek on the night of May 17-18 that injured at least 29 people, including several foreigners, and appeared to be directed against foreign students and migrants.
At least one Taliban border guard and one Pakistani soldier have been killed and several more injured in the latest border clash between them.
In Pakistan, hundreds of supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan took to the streets of the city of Swat to demand the release of their leader. In Peshawar, hundreds of activists from the religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI) held a protest rally on May 9, demanding new elections.
Pakistan’s military has again accused Kabul of providing sanctuary for militants, alleging on May 7 that a March 26 suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver was planned in neighboring Afghanistan.
Protesters who have been staging a sit-in at a key border-crossing point in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan say that security forces have opened fire on them, killing one and injuring several more.
Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province plans to spend more than $25 million to boost security efforts in the restive region.
A Pakistani journalist and two other people were killed in car-bomb blast on May 2 in southwestern Balochistan province's Khuzdar district, 400 kilometers west of provincial capital Quetta.
At least 20 people were killed when a bus fell into a ravine in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region early on May 3, officials said.
A senior Pakistani judge has been released after being kidnapped in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, a senior provincial official told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on April 29.
A senior judge serving the South Waziristan district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has been kidnapped by armed men.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will make an official visit to Pakistan on April 22-24 accompanied by his wife, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other senior Iranian officials, and a business delegation, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced on April 21.
Police in the western Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan say unidentified men opened fire on a vehicle carrying customs officials on April 21, killing a customs inspector and two security personnel and injuring another in the second deadly attack on customs officials in the span of four days.
Five Japanese nationals escaped unhurt from a suicide attack in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, early on April 19.
Heavy snowmelt and torrential rains have caused deadly floods around Pakistan's Peshawar and in Afghanistan's Farah Province. Dozens have died, crops were lost, and more than 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. The flooding follows an unusually mild winter.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms that hit several parts of Pakistan have killed 39 people and injured dozens more over the past few days, local officials said.
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