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.
Asif Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's slain first female leader, Benazir Bhutto, was sworn in on March 10 as president following his election by the National Assembly a day earlier.
Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan on March 8 on International Women's Day, calling for an end to violence against women in the home, workplace, and in politics. The theme of this year's demonstration was Politics, Resistance, and Freedom.
In Pakistan, hundreds of women rallied across the country on March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
Heavy snowfall and rains have killed at least 80 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan as extreme weather conditions wreak havoc in both countries.
Shehbaz Sharif took the oath of office on March 4 to become Pakistan's prime minister for a second time.
At least 20 people were killed and dozens were injured in rain-related incidents in two Pakistani provinces, rescue officials told RFERL’s Radio Mashaal.
Pakistan's newly elected lower chamber of parliament, the National Assembly, convened its first session on February 29 where newly elected lawmakers were sworn in, three weeks after an election marred by widespread allegations of rigging.
Pakistani police on February 24 detained dozens of political workers in Karachi who staged protests outside the provincial assembly in the southern Sindh Province against alleged fraud in February's general elections.
Pakistan's media regulators again disrupted service on February 22 to the social-media platform X, formerly Twitter, affecting users across the country for the sixth day in a row.
Thousands of people have protested, including blocking roads, in the southwestern Balochistan region of Pakistan against the results of recent inconclusive parliamentary elections as Pakistan’s two largest political parties continued talks over who could lead a future government.
The party of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, which according to still incomplete results has won most mandates in the February 8 elections, said it was ready to form a government.
Independent candidates backing jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan took a shock lead as counting continued in Pakistan's February 8 parliamentary elections amid allegations of vote rigging.
Former Pakistanis Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called on all political parties to unite in a government, as preliminary results from the country’s parliamentary elections appeared to deliver a hung parliament.
More than 128 million registered voters are eligible to cast their votes in parliamentary elections across Pakistan on February 8. RFE/RL correspondent Gul Ayaz reports from Peshawar.
Vote counting was under way on February 8 following elections in Pakistan that took place amid worsening economic conditions and an upsurge of violence that prompted authorities to deploy thousands of extra security forces across the country and shut down mobile-phone networks in border areas.
Pakistan holds parliamentary elections on February 8 with the country in political and economic turmoil. RFE/RL correspondents Gul Ayaz and Wasim Sajjad report from Peshawar.
More than 20 people were killed and two dozen were injured in blasts in the Pakistani province Balochistan one day ahead of parliamentary elections.
Two blasts near election offices of candidates in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed nearly 30 people and wounded dozens on February 7, a day before the parliamentary vote is to be held in the South Asian country.
As Pakistan goes to the polls on February 8 to vote in parliamentary elections, RFE/RL spoke to one family from the city of Peshawar about their hopes for the future.
The opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party has embraced technology to try to boost its chances in parliamentary elections in Pakistan on February 8.
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