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.
Reports of an alleged kidnapping and religious conversion of two Hindu teenage sisters to Islam in mostly Muslim Pakistan last week has triggered a spat between the country and its neighbor India.
Late last year, RFE/RL met Shehla who lives in a village near Peshawar in northern Pakistan. She dressed as a man so she could work on local building sites to pay the rent. Now, thanks to donations from RFE/RL's audience, she's set up a business selling women's clothing door-to-door.
The leaders of one of Pakistan's main opposition parties have been summoned by the country's anticorruption agency to face questions in three separate cases.
Militants attacked a remote security outpost in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, killing six members of the paramilitary forces, authorities say.
Marches for gender equality were held around the world to mark International Women's Day. In Baku, police forcefully stopped one rally before it could get started.
Activists in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar burned an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as tensions between the neighboring countries continued.
Dozens of protesters rallied in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, on February 27, calling on their leaders to go to war with India amid escalating tensions over Kashmir. Both countries reported having shot down the other's warplanes over the disputed region.
A new round of peace talks between Taliban and U.S. negotiators is to begin in Doha this week and will include the militant group’s co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, according to Taliban and diplomatic sources in Qatar.
The Taliban have called off a planned round of peace talks in Pakistan, saying that most of the members of its negotiating team are unable to travel because they are subject to U.S. and UN sanctions.
Afghanistan has expressed concerns to the UN Security Council about a planned visit by Taliban negotiators to Pakistan, asserting that the militant group’s members traveling to Islamabad are under UN sanctions and that Kabul should have been consulted prior to any such meeting.
Police in Pakistan accused a small boy of shooting at a police van. He was just 15 months old at the time of the purported incident. Senior investigators are now doubting it happened.
Thirteen-year-old Saad Khan has a passion for traditional Pakistani bull racing.
Five Pakistani police officers have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials say.
Thousands of families remain displaced nearly five years after Pakistan's military offensive against militants in North Waziristan. Officials are defending conditions at the Bakakhel Camp.
Politicians, lawyers, and business-owners went on strike in Pakistan’s southwest province of Balochistan after a regional leader of a Pakistani civil rights group died, allegedly at the hands of police.
At least eight people, including seven police officers, have been killed and 21 wounded in an attack on a local police office in Pakistan, the authorities say.
A co-founder of the Afghan Taliban who was released from detention by Pakistan last year has been appointed as the leader of the militant group’s political office in Qatar.
Pakistan's Supreme Court will decide on January 29 whether to allow an appeal against its acquittal of a Christian woman at the center of a blasphemy row, a lawyer for the woman has said.
A U.S. law firm has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle claims by the Department of Justice that it violated lobbying laws by failing to register work it did for Ukraine’s government.
Pakistan has detained a senior member of the Afghan Taliban, sources in the group say.
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