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.
Afghanistan has returned the dead bodies of five Pakistani soldiers to Pakistan following clashes near the two countries' disputed border, Afghan officials say.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns -- led by young the young activist Manzoor Pashteen -- gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on April 8 for a mass demonstration to demand the protection of the rights of Pashtuns.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is scheduled to travel to Afghanistan on April 6 on a landmark visit that could help ease tensions between the two neighbors.
Six Afghan soldiers have been slightly wounded in a bomb attack in the capital, the Defense Ministry says.
The United States has placed Pakistan's Milli Muslim League political party on its list of foreign terrorist organizations for its alleged links to a militant group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry says Islamabad and Washington have yet to find "common ground" on a range of issues, including U.S. accusations that Pakistan is not pulling its weight in the fight against terrorism.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai expressed joy and shed tears as she paid a short “dream” visit to her hometown in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.
A Pakistani court has acquitted 20 people of charges that they were part of a lynch mob who burned alive a Christian couple that had been falsely accused of blasphemy in 2014.
A son of Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah and 19 other people were killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike this week in Afghanistan, officials say.
Pakistan's top court has ruled that a person disqualified for public office cannot serve as head of a political party, paving the way for the removal of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from chairing the country's ruling party.
Thousands of Pashtun protesters in northwestern Pakistan have called on the authorities to swiftly arrest the murderers of a university student.
A Pakistani court has sentenced one person to death and five other people to life imprisonment over the mob lynching of a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy in 2017.
Tribal leaders in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province say hundreds of Pashtun tribespeople torched the office of a pro-government Taliban commander in the southern city of Dera Ismail Khan on February 6.
Pakistani officials say at least six members of a family were killed when an explosion ripped through a car in a northwestern region near the Afghan border.
Protesters have rallied in several Pakistani cities amid widespread public outrage over the rape and killing of a 8-year-old girl.
Pakistani protesters angry over the rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl have attacked a police station and another government office, resulting in the deaths of at least two people.
The chief minister of Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan has resigned amid opposition lawmakers' efforts to oust him through a vote of no confidence.
Pakistan has responded harshly to a U.S. decision to suspend at least $900 million in security assistance, saying Washington's "arbitrary deadlines, unilateral pronouncements, and shifting goalposts are counterproductive" to addressing the threat of terrorism.
The White House is calling on Pakistan to do more to fight terrorism and says that it will announce "specific actions" within days to pressure Islamabad.
Pakistan has summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off billions of dollars in aid and accused Islamabad of being a safe haven for extremists.
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