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.
China's foreign minister is scheduled to visit Islamabad and Kabul this month to discuss ways to improve relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a top Pakistani government official has told RFE/RL.
A suspected U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan has killed a commander of the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, local officials say.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to appear this week before a panel investigating allegations of his family's offshore companies and money laundering.
Authorities in China and Pakistan say they are investigating the Islamic State (IS) extremist group's claim that two Chinese teachers kidnapped in southwestern Pakistan have been killed.
A group of prominent religious scholars in Pakistan has issued a fatwa against suicide attacks, armed insurgency, and the use of force with the aim of imposing Shari'a law.
The main campus of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, northwest Pakistan reopened on May 25 after closure on April 14 following the mob lynching of a student accused of blasphemy.
Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has hit the convoy of a senior lawmaker as it traveled in the southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 30 others.
Reports from Pakistan say a bomb blast has hit the convoy of a senior lawmaker as it was traveling in the southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least 10 people.
Afghanistan has disputed a claim by the Pakistani Army that it had killed some 50 security personnel and destroyed at least five Afghan checkpoints near the border between the two countries, saying only two border police were killed.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 80 others wounded in clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces near the Chaman border crossing, officials said May 5.
At least six people have been killed and 24 others injured in clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces near the Chaman border crossing, officials say.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered further investigations into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but ruled that he can remain in office for now.
A university student killed by a mob in northern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy was buried on April 14.
An explosion in a mainly Shi’ite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens of others, reports say.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai has called for gender equality in her native Pakistan, urging women and girls there to struggle for their rights through education.
Pakistan's government has approved plans to bring the country's semiautonomous tribal areas into the political mainstream -- a move that would end federal rule of the region and extend the jurisdiction of Pakistan's national courts there.
A U.S. drone has killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said.
A senior Pakistani police official says the death toll from an Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing at a crowded Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has risen to 72 people, with more than 100 others wounded.
Two separate explosions have killed at least seven people in northwestern Pakistan.
A suicide bomber has killed four people, including two police officers, and injured four in an attack targeting the administrative headquarters of a tribal region in the country's northwest.
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