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.
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.
A roadside bomb targeting a van that was transporting the police guarding polio vaccination teams killed four children and a police officer in Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province.
Armed men attacked a construction site in Pakistan's southern region of Balochistan, killing five builders who were working on a dam in the Panjgur area, near the border with Iran, the region's government announced.
Ten members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) were killed and three others were wounded in a militant attack early on October 25 in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Two transgender people were killed in northwest Pakistan overnight in an attack highlighting an increase in violence against trans people in the country, with culprits rarely receiving punishment.
Thousands of demonstrators held a peaceful protest in the troubled northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu.
Senior officials from around Asia and parts of Europe have begun meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit under tight security in Islamabad amid a surge in violence by various separatist groups in Pakistan.
At least four Pakistani police officers and five insurgents were killed on October 14 when militants stormed a police headquarters in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in the country’s northwest, a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity told RFE/RL.
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