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.
Pakistan's interior minister has asked lawmakers to give police "clear guidance" to treat violent antigovernment protesters in Islamabad as “intruders and terrorists”.
A Pakistani cleric who is leading an antigovernment protest in Islamabad says he is prepared to die if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif does not resign within 48 hours.
A leader of a mass protest outside of Pakistan’s parliament has called upon his followers to blockade the building as lawmakers inside were meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to discuss the country’s political crisis.
Pakistani security forces claim they have arrested a key commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering in the aftermath of a Pakistani military operation in a northwestern tribal region that is a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban and international jihadists.
A militant group in Pakistan's volatile North Waziristan tribal district says a peace accord with the Pakistani government has been revoked.
Tribespeople have called for an end to military offensive following recent government airstrikes that allegedly killed scores of civilians in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
Amid the skyrocketing number of polio cases in Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced an international health emergency.
Pakistan's leading human rights organization has documented an alarming rise in violence against minorities and women as part of a broadly dismal rights situation in the country.
Pakistan's Defense Ministry has officially requested the closure of the country's leading television news channel.
Nearly three years after Islamabad announced modest political and judicial reforms in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the region's century-old draconian Frontier Crimes Regulations have not changed.
RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal quotes local and intelligence sources in North Waziristan as saying that the former acting chief of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed.
