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.
Pakistan celebrated its 71st Independence Day with fireworks in Islamabad. People took to the streets of the capital following official ceremonies marking the event earlier on August 14.
Hundreds of villagers in northwestern Pakistan staged an angry protest against the killing of a local man in a police operation on August 14.
At least seven miners have been killed and six others were missing and feared dead after an explosion ripped apart a coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, reports say.
Supporters of Pakistan's opposition political parties have rallied to protest what they claim were fraud and voting irregularities in last month's national elections, directly blaming the country's powerful military.
At least 17 suspects have been detained in a police operation in northern Pakistan to apprehend those responsible for torching more than a dozen schools, officials say.
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP) on July 30 took to the streets to protest the results of the July 25 parliamentary election, claiming the vote was rigged.
U.S. and Taliban officials met this week for direct talks aimed at setting up peace negotiations to end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, a Taliban official said.
Supporters of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan celebrated on the streets of Lahore after his party was reported to be ahead in the general election late on July 25.
Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan has declared victory for his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party in the country's July 25 national elections that were marred by long delays in vote-tallying and allegations of rigging by rivals.
There were scenes in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, after a bombing outside a polling station. The blast killed dozens of people shortly after voting in parliamentary elections began on July 25. (Pakistani police video)
Polls have closed in Pakistan's national elections that were marred by a deadly suicide attack in the southwestern city of Quetta.
A Pakistani candidate Ikramullah Gandapur from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed on July 22 in a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of July 25 general elections. (Radio Mashaal)
A Pakistani candidate and his driver were killed in a suicide attack in the country's northwest, in the latest violence related to the July 25 national elections.
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appealed his 10-year prison sentence, just days after returning to the country ahead of national elections on July 25.
At least 133 people, including a parliamentary candidate, were killed and more than 230 wounded in two separate election-related bombings in Pakistan on July 13.
A deadly bomb blast hit a politician's convoy as it headed to an election rally in the northwestern city of Bannu on July 13. The politician, Akram Khan Durrani, said afterwards that the authorities had warned him about potential security threats.
At least 133 people have been killed, including a parliamentary candidate, and more than 230 wounded in two separate election-related bombings in Pakistan on July 13, authorities say, amid growing tensions over the return and arrest of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who is facing corruption charges.
The party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has alleged that the authorities are detaining hundreds of supporters ahead of the ousted leader's return to Pakistan this week.
Police say a suicide bomber has attacked a crowd waiting for an election rally in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 13 people.
Six members of Pakistan’s paramilitary force and two police officers have been killed in separate attacks in the country's southwest and northwest, officials say.
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