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.
A new truce agreement has been achieved between feuding Sunni and Shi’ite communities in Pakistan’s northwestern region of Kurram, where more than 100 people were killed and dozens more injured in a new bout of sectarian violence, local officials said.
Supporters of Imran Khan have called of their massive protest in Islamabad demanding the release of the jailed former Pakistani prime minister after security forces launched a sweeping midnight operation in the capital, arresting hundreds of people.
Security forces were deployed across Islamabad on November 26 as supporters of the jailed formed Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in the Pakistani capital. There were overnight reports that forces had been ordered to "shoot on sight." At least three soldiers and two protesters have died.
Pakistani police and security forces launched a massive crackdown on thousands of supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on November 26 after they refused to call off a protest march demanding his release.
Thousands of protesters calling for the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan defied roadblocks and tear gas on November 25 to march toward Islamabad despite a lockdown and a ban on public gatherings.
At least one officer was killed and dozens of people were injured outside Islamabad after police fired tear gas at supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Pakistani government on November 24 said its mediation team had reached agreement on a seven-day cease-fire among warring sectarian groups in the northwest of the country, looking to end clashes that have killed more than 80 people.
Supporters of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) opposition party headed from Peshawar for the party's planned nationwide rally in the capital, Islamabad, on November 24. Authorities banned gatherings in Islamabad and blocked city entries with shipping containers.
Pakistani authorities have locked down Islamabad, and partially suspended mobile phone and internet services as supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan geared up for a protest in the capital, calling for his release.
Local authorities have reported that at least 25 people, most of them Shi’a, were killed on November 22 in fresh sectarian violence in a tribal region northwest Pakistan long known as a hotspot of Shi’ite-Sunni conflict.
Religious tensions are on the rise in northwestern Pakistan following a deadly attack on a police-escorted convoy of Shi'ite Muslims that threatened to reignite sectarian violence in a strife-plagued region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
At least 38 people were killed and more than 40 wounded after gunmen opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying Shi'ite Muslims in northwest Pakistan as religious tension in the region rises.
At least 11 members of Pakistan's security forces were killed and at least four others were wounded in a car-bombing and shooting attack, the country's military said in a statement.
Armed men kidnapped seven police officers in Pakistan's northwest on November 18, residents and police officials said.
At least seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed and 13 others were wounded in a militant attack on a checkpoint in the mountainous Kalat district some 150 kilometers from Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Balochistan Province.
Grappling with the most expensive electricity prices in South Asia, many Pakistanis are going off-grid and turning to low-cost solar panels from China. But the shift to solar risks creating a new fiscal crisis for the government.
Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, was rocked by a deadly explosion at a train station on November 9. Surveillance footage obtained by Reuters captures the moment of the blast on a crowded platform. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) group claimed responsibility.
At least 21 people were killed and 37 wounded when a powerful blast ripped through the Quetta train station in southwestern Pakistan on November 9, officials told RFERL’s Radio Mashaal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Islamabad at the start of a two-day official visit during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, and other officials, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced on November 5.
Pakistan reported two cases of wild poliovirus infection on November 1 in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, raising the national count for the year to 45, according to the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program.
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