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.
Security forces raided two militant hideouts in former Taliban strongholds in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on April 7, killing seven militants, the military said.
In Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police arrested dozens of doctors and paramedics who refused to work in hospitals amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical workers say they lack the protective gear needed to safely treat patients with the coronavirus. Police beat protesters with batons as they broke up an April 6 sit-in by medical staff from Quetta's Civil Hospital and Bolan Medical College.
A Pakistani court has overturned a death sentence and murder conviction imposed on a British-born militant over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pakistan has announced a financial-relief package of some $6 billion and cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in a week in an effort to counter the divesting effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.
A village in northwestern Pakistan is under lockdown after a 50-year-old man became the first recorded coronavirus-related fatality in the country. Saadat Khan, who had an underlying heart condition, returned ill from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Coronavirus cases in Pakistan have soared to over 900 and there have now been seven recorded deaths.
Seven miners have been killed in an accident inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.
Four members of Pakistan's security forces and seven militants have been killed during a shoot-out in the northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan, Pakistan's military says.
A Pakistani pilot died when his F-16 jet crashed in a wooded area in the capital, Islamabad, the Pakistani Air Force says.
Rallies to mark International Women's Day have come under attack in several countries. In Pakistan's capital, ultraconservatives threw stones as they were permitted to protest on the same avenue as women holding a march. In the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, masked men attacked women as they took part in a demonstration. In Azerbaijan, police forcibly dispersed women marching in Baku.
A passenger bus plunged into a river in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others.
A Pakistani Army colonel and two suspected terrorists have been killed in an exchange of fire in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A women's freedom march in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, was disrupted on March 8 as its participants were pelted with stones from a counterprotest held by Islamists and conservatives. At least seven people were reported injured.
Several people were reportedly injured as social and religious conservatives clashed with International Women's Day demonstrators in Islamabad on March 8.
A local leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and member of an anti-militant group has been gunned down in the country's restive northwest.
Pakistani authorities have released a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, weeks after he was arrested on charges including sedition.
Dozens of Pakistani demonstrators blocked a highway to Afghanistan on February 23 in a sit-in protest against the killing of a young man by security forces. The blockade has been held intermittently near the town of Landi Kotal, in northwestern Pakistan, since February 22.
Pakistan's Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan has stepped down after coming under pressure from the country's influential lawyers' organization, the Bar Council, for critical remarks he made about members of the Supreme Court.
Pakistan health officials say soybean dust from shipping containers, not a toxic gas leak, likely was responsible for the deaths of 14 people in a Karachi neighborhood this week.
Pakistani police released security camera footage of a suicide bombing in Quetta that hit a demonstration by a radical Sunni Islamist group on February 17. A police official told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that the bomber was riding a motorcycle and detonated his explosives when he was stopped by authorities. The explosion killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others.
Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others on February 17 at a radical Sunni Islamist rally in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province. Quetta Police Chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema said the February 17 rally was being staged by dozens of Sunni Muslim followers of the radical Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat (ASWJ) party.
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