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.
Kites have once again filled the skies of the Pakistani city of Lahore after a 19-year ban. Markets sold thousands of handmade kites in the colors of spring flowers to eager flyers who often compete in aerial "battles" by trying to slice rivals' kite strings.
In one of the deadliest attacks in years, a suicide bomber killed at least 31 people during an attack on a Friday prayers congregation in a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
At least 31 people were killed in an explosion at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. Police and government officials said the February 6 attack was a suicide bombing during Friday Prayers and that nearly 170 other people were injured.
Pakistan has used violence and political repression to stamp out a decades-old insurgency in Balochistan Province. The largest-ever attacks in the region have called into question that strategy.
Pakistan's Navy on December 17 launched its fourth Hangor-class submarine, the PNS Ghazi, at the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group’s Shuangliu Base in Wuhan, marking the completion of construction for all four China-built boats in a landmark eight-submarine program.
Afghan migrants and refugees in Pakistan are being rounded up by authorities amid soaring tensions with the Taliban-led government in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan is trying to repatriate millions of Afghans after hosting them for decades.
Tens of thousands of Afghans involuntarily returned to their country every week as Pakistan goes ahead with plans to repatriate all Afghan refugees and migrants back into Afghanistan. RFE/RL has spoken to many who are being returned to a country they've never lived in.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has vowed a "necessary response" after air strikes allegedly carried out by Pakistan killed at least 10 people -- nine of whom were children -- in the eastern border region between the two countries.
A suicide attack in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, has killed at least 12 people. The November 11 attack comes a day after a car bomb killed at least eight people in New Delhi, the capital of India. The attacks have raised fears of renewed tensions between the nuclear-armed archenemies.
Negotiations for a lasting truce between Afghanistan and Pakistan have broken down, Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on October 29 after four days of negotiations brokered by Qatar and Turkey.
The Pakistani military says soldiers and militants have died in clashes near the Afghan border, as diplomats from both countries meet to prevent violence from erupting again after the worst fighting in years.
Afghanistan and Pakistan began peace talks on October 18 in the Qatari capital of Doha after border clashes and attacks raised fears of an all-out war between the two countries.
The ongoing closure of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has left hundreds of trucks stranded on both sides, severely affecting cross-border trade. As a result, fruit and vegetable prices have surged in Pakistan, with dealers reporting sharp increases due to halted supplies from Afghanistan.
Fighting along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, along with air strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul, on October 15, has killed dozens and led to widespread destruction, according to survivors.
More clashes have broken out along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with dozens of Taliban fighters reportedly killed on October 15. Fighting near the Pakistani border town of Chaman followed three days of escalating conflict between the two countries.
Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to a temporary cease-fire on October 15 after deadly air strikes and ground fighting raised fears of a full-blown conflict between the neighbors.
Commerce has ground to a halt at a key border checkpoint between Pakistan and Afghanistan following deadly clashes between the two countries. RFE/RL spoke to truckers who have been stuck at the Torkham crossing. Deadly clashes erupted on October 11 at several locations along the frontier.
Fierce fighting has broken out in at least five locations, with multiple soldiers killed, in a flare-up of violence between Pakistani and Afghan forces near the two countries' tense border.
At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured in an attack by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group in the Bar area of South Waziristan on September 13, according to the Pakistani military.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
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