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.
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.
A court in Pakistan has convicted the country’s already imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan, and his wife Bushra Bibi in a new corruption case that he has disputed as politically motivated.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who stated she was “honored” and “overwhelmed” to be at the event, said she will hold Afghanistan's Taliban rulers "accountable" for rights violations when she addresses a Muslim-led summit on girls’ education on January 12.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said preventing girls from receiving an education is “tantamount to denying their voice” as he opened a major Muslim-led summit on the subject that remains sensitive in the Islamic world.
Thousands of protesters have blocked a key highway in northern Pakistan over power outages. Residents in the city of Ali Abad in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region say they've faced outages of up to 20 hours during a harsh winter.
Shi’ite and Sunni leaders in northwestern Pakistan on January 1 signed a peace agreement to end ongoing tensions and establish a permanent cease-fire after deadly clashes believed to be linked to a tribal land feud killed more than 100 people in the past 90 days.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government said that Taliban forces targeted what it claimed were “centers and hideouts for malicious elements” it said were involved in a recent attack in Afghanistan, as an upsurge of cross-border fighting continues.
A Pakistani military court has sentenced 60 people to prison terms ranging between two and 10 years over violent protests that erupted after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2023, the army’s media wing said on December 26.
Pakistani air strikes killed 46 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban-led government in Kabul said on December 25, while Islamabad claimed it targeted suspected militant hideouts in border areas.
Pakistani military jets on December 24 conducted air strikes inside Afghanistan, targeting suspected hideouts of the Islamist militant group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Pakistani militants carried out a daring early-morning raid near the northwestern border with Afghanistan, killing over a dozen officers in the latest attack of 2024 -- a year already marked as one of the deadliest in the region.
Pakistani military courts have sentenced 25 people for their part in attacks on military facilities in May 2023.
Hundreds have been killed and injured in clashes between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims in northwestern Pakistan this year. The violence has fueled a worsening humanitarian situation in one city.
Several rights organizations have demanded the release of veteran journalist Matiullah Jan, who was detained by Pakistani authorities on November 27 and held on terrorism-related charges.
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