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.
Tensions between India and Pakistan are threatening to boil over as they trade diplomatic and economic measures following a deadly attack in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir that has raised fears of another military escalation between the nuclear-armed countries.
After fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, many musicians found refuge in neighboring Pakistan. But now, amid a renewed deportation campaign by Islamabad, their future is once again uncertain -- and the survival of Afghan musical traditions hangs in the balance.
Afghan musicians were persecuted after the Taliban gained control of their country in 2021 and many fled to Pakistan. Those who remain there have found ways to continue their profession but now that Pakistan has launched a new campaign to deport Afghans, they are worried about their future.
Pakistan has called on Iran to take swift action following the killing of eight Pakistani nationals in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
Thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan have left via the Torkham border crossing as part of Islamabad’s large-scale deportation campaign.
Thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have been forcibly repatriated since Pakistani authorities set an April 10 deadline for those without documents to leave the country. Many refugees are reluctant to return to the Taliban-controlled country.
With Pakistan enforcing a deportation deadline that passed on March 31, hundreds of thousands of Afghans who fled the Taliban's takeover in 2021 now face an uncertain future. Other Afghans have lived in Pakistan's Mardan camp for generations, and many have never lived in Afghanistan.
Multiple civilians, including women and children, were killed in a Pakistani military operation targeting militants in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a provincial official said.
Baluch militants attacked a Pakistani security convoy, killing at least five people, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in troubled regions bordering Afghanistan.
Hundreds of Pakistani troops engaged in a tense confrontation with a similar number of militants on March 12 over more than 200 hostages a day after a separatist group hijacked a train in a remote region of southwestern Pakistan.
Pakistan ordered Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders and “all illegal foreigners" to leave the country, either voluntarily or through deportation starting on April 1, raising fears among the Afghan community of repression should they return to their homeland.
A powerful explosion at a seminary in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least seven people, including a top cleric.
Spiritual leader and business magnate Prince Karim Aga Khan, considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, was remembered fondly by admirers in Pakistan and Lisbon on February 8.
Pakistani opposition parties, including the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, staged demonstrations on February 8 to mark the first anniversary of the country’s general elections, which triggered widespread allegations of vote-rigging.
Male passengers in Peshawar are often surprised to find Sana Khan at the wheel -- but she assures them she has a driver's license and is fully capable of driving her cab. She believes she's the Pakistani city's first woman cabbie, a job that makes her parents proud.
Pakistan has said it will deport tens of thousands of Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement in the West if the prospective host countries do not relocate them by the end of March.
Pakistani military and police authorities say 18 paramilitary troops and two dozen militants were killed overnight in fighting in the restive Balochistan Province in the country’s southwest.
A court in northwestern Pakistan sentenced four men to death for posting sacrilegious materials about Koran and Islamic figures.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for two top Taliban officials alleging they are responsible for persecuting Afghan women and girls.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruptions charges in a case he claims was politically motivated.
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