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.
An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on December 19 handed over a lawmaker and Pashtun-rights leader to be held in custody for 12 days over a sedition charge that has sparked protests all over northwestern Pakistan.
Thousands of people in cities across Pakistan protested against the arrest of Ali Wazir, the leader of an ethnic Pashtun civil rights group.
Thousands of people have rallied in dozens of cities and towns in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere on December 18 to protest against the arrest of a lawmaker and leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said after meeting Taliban representatives in Islamabad that he is concerned about “the high level of violence in Afghanistan.”
Ali Wazir, a lawmaker and leader of a civil rights movement campaign for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority, has appeared before a judge following his arrest in the northwestern city of Peshawar on anti-state charges.
Ali Wazir, a lawmaker and prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, has been arrested on unspecified charges, say Pakistani activists.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the continuation of the war in neighboring Afghanistan was not in the Taliban’s “interest anymore,” after holding talks with a Taliban delegation in Islamabad.
Dozens of residents and activists have launched a sit-in in the northwestern North Waziristan tribal district demanding an investigation into the killing of a man during a search operation.
Thousands of people rallied on December 13 in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan and new elections.
Tens of thousands of Pakistani opposition supporters gathered in central city of Lahore, defying coronavirus restrictions, to renew calls on Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down to pave the way for fresh, "transparent" elections.
Unidentified armed men shot dead a journalist in northwestern Pakistan on December 7, police and the journalist's relatives told Radio Mashaal on December 8.
Pakistani authorities say they have suspended seven workers at a Pakistani hospital after six COVID-19 patients who were left without sufficient oxygen died.
Seven COVID-19 patients have died in a hospital in northwestern Pakistan due to a shortage of oxygen supply, local officials and medics say.
Gunmen killed two tribal elders in a remote Pakistani district, bringing to six the number of elders killed in the country’s troubled northwestern tribal region this week.
Hundreds of Christians gathered in the city of Islamabad on December 1 to mark the beginning of Christmas festivities. At the first rally of its type in the Pakistani capital, participants played religious songs through megaphones and chanted in praise of Jesus Christ.
Unidentified gunmen have killed four tribal elders in the remote North Waziristan tribal district.
Afghan forces have killed a member of the Taliban whom Kabul says was the mastermind of a suicide car-bombing that left at least 30 security personnel dead.
Pakistani artist Munir Ahmad struggles to preserve his passion for painting and sculpture.
Four construction workers have been shot dead in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area, police said on November 27.
Pakistan’s educational institutions are to remain closed for more than a month amid a surge in coronavirus infections and related deaths.
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