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.
Police in Pakistan say assailants opened fire on a police station in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on July 21 and then blew up the entrance to a hospital as the wounded were being brought in.
Polls have closed in Pakistan's first-ever provincial elections in the northwestern tribal areas, a region along the Afghan border that was once controlled by Islamist militant groups.
Pakistan's anticorruption agency has arrested a former prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a spokesman for the agency, the National Accountability Board (NAB), said on July 18.
Sufi Muhammad, a radical Pakistani cleric who waged war against foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan, has died.
At least six people drowned on July 3 after a boat carrying up to 40 people capsized in the Indus River in northwestern Pakistan.
A local leader of the secular Awami National Party (ANP) was gunned down in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 29 by unknown assailants.
Pakistani authorities say they have arrested a key suspect in relation to the kidnapping and murder of a 10-year-old girl in Islamabad.
Dozens of senior Afghan political figures are attending a peace conference in neighboring Pakistan aimed at paving the way for an intra-Afghan dialogue to end almost two decades of war with the Taliban.
Police in Islamabad say a popular Pakistani blogger and social-media activist has been killed by an attacker with a knife.
A court in Pakistan has handed over former President Asif Ali Zardari to the country’s anti-corruption agency for questioning in a money laundering case.
Pakistani authorities have arrested former President Asif Ali Zardari on corruption charges.
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) on June 7 in North Waziristan.
Pakistani journalist Gohar Wazir has been released from custody and returned home on May 31.
A World Health Organization (WHO) team has begun investigating an HIV outbreak in an impoverished district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan.
A second Pakistani lawmaker accused of being behind an alleged attack on a military post has been arrested, a provincial spokesman said.
An international media-freedom watchdog has urged Pakistan to immediately release a reporter who was detained for his coverage of this week's violently repressed protests by minority Pashtuns in a northwestern region near the Afghan border.
Thousands of protesters have attended anti-military protests overnight in northwestern Pakistan after activists from a rights group were killed when soldiers fired at their demonstration.
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Pakistani cities following the deaths of at least three ethnic Pashtun activists in the northwestern tribal region.
Three people were killed and at least 10 others in clashes between Pakistani security forces and protesters in the country’s northwestern tribal region, the military and eyewitnesses say.
Two people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a blast May 24 at a mosque in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan Province.
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