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 contingent of more than 70 mountain troops from a motorized rifle brigade based in the North Caucasus republic of Karachai-Cherkessia is participating in the Druzhba-2018 exercises, Russia's Southern Military District said in a statement on October 22.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told his Iranian counterpart that security forces are searching for 14 Iranian border guards who Tehran says were abducted by militants this week.
The Pakistani village Shah Hassan Khel is struggling to move on eight years after a devastating suicide attack killed more than 120 spectators and players at a volleyball match.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has called on Pakistan to tackle suspected militants who kidnapped 14 members of Iranian security forces on October 16 on their shared border.
A major border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed on October 15 following clashes between the two countries’ security forces, leaving hundreds of people and vehicles stranded on both sides.
Unofficial by-election results show that the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party (PTI) and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) each appear to have won four seats in the lower house of parliament.
Pakistani voters headed to the polls on October 14 to elect 11 members of the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, and fill 24 seats in provincial assemblies.
Pakistan is holding parliamentary and provincial by-elections in a total of 35 constituencies on October 14.
A primary school in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province is so overcrowded and underfunded that most students attend classes while sitting in the dirt of an empty lot.
Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to release a Pashtun rights activist who was detained immediately after her arrival in the country.
Opposition lawmakers staged a sit-in outside the parliament building in Islamabad, to protest against the decision by the new Pakistani government to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Gunmen have shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a firefight after they raided militant hideouts in the mountains of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, the military says.
Small children were taught to self-flagellate during the Ashura holiday in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 20.
Pakistan is set to auction off about 100 luxury cars used by senior officials of previous governments.
Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb has exploded near a security convoy in the country's southwest, killing three security personnel and wounding two others.
The wife of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has died at a clinic in London after battling cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 68.
Hundreds of worshipers gathered at the King Faisal Mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on August 22 to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.
Transgender activists staged a passionate protest in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to condemn the murder and mutilation of a transgender woman. The August 20 demonstration came four days after a woman identified in local media as Nazo was reportedly shot dead at a wedding. Police said her body was later hacked to pieces. Two arrests have been made in the case. TransAction Pakistan, an activist group supporting the rights of transgender persons, said it was the 62nd killing of a transgender person in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province since 2015.
Pakistani lawmakers were gathering in Islamabad to elect former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country's prime minister.
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