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 series of shooting incidents believed to be linked to a tribal land feud in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have left at least 15 people dead and nine others injured, local elders and district officials told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal on October 12.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns attended the beginning of a three-day Jirga or grand assembly on October 11 near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. The meeting was called by the nonviolent PTM, or Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, to advocate for Pashtun rights.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed 20 coal miners in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province early on October 11, police said.
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its loya jirga (grand assembly) on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the deaths of three of its members.
Thousands attended funerals for three Pashtun activists killed by Pakistani police in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Mourners gathered on October 10, a day after police fired at members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
Mahrang Baloch, a leading rights activist for the ethnic Baluch minority, was prevented from leaving Pakistan to attend a ceremony in the United States, she wrote on social media on October 8.
Two Chinese citizens were killed in a large blast near the airport of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. The attack took place late on October 6 and was claimed by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a statement.
Two Chinese citizens were killed in a large blast near the airport of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, which the Chinese Embassy called a "terrorist attack."
Pakistani authorities have banned a popular civil rights movement that campaigns for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority.
Islamabad appeared to be in lockdown mode on October 5 as supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to bypass police barricades and enter the Pakistani capital to demand his release.
Pakistan’s military has said that that six of its soldiers, including a high-ranking officer, were killed on the evening of October 4 when a military convoy was attacked by Islamist militants in the country’s restive northwest.
The Pakistani government has ordered the deployment of army troops in Islamabad on October 5 amid a tense standoff as Pakistani security forces blocked the main access roads into the capital and cut off the phone signal in order to prevent supporters of jailed ex-PM Imran Khan entering the city.
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has reported a series of police raids and arrests targeting its leaders and members across Pakistan ahead of a curial jirga (people's assembly) on October 1 in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Police and pro-Hezbollah protesters clashed in the streets of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, after demonstrators attempted to access the U.S. Consulate on September 29.
Police in Karachi fired tear gas and warning shots after some protesters threw stones and tried to cross barriers blocking access to the U.S. Consulate. The protesters on September 29 rallied against the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, chief of Hezbollah, designated as a terrorist group by the U.S.
Seven people were shot dead on September 28 in Pakistan’s southwestern region of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran and is home to the country’s Baluch ethnic minority.
At least 15 policemen were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion inside a police station in northwestern Pakistan.
The Pakistani Taliban on September 23 denied involvement in a bombing attack the previous day on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the country's restive northwest.
About a dozen foreign diplomats are safe after a police vehicle escorting them to a business meeting in the Swat district in northwestern Pakistan hit a land mine on September 22, killing one officer and injuring three others.
Thousands of supporters of the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party rallied in Lahore to demand the release of imprisoned leader Imran Khan, but the gathering was cut short after authorities shut off power to the lights and sound system at the site, local media reported.
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