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.
The chief minister of Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan has resigned amid opposition lawmakers' efforts to oust him through a vote of no confidence.
Islamabad has rejected U.S. criticism about Pakistan's record on religious freedom, saying that Pakistan is being made a scapegoat for "failure" in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has responded harshly to a U.S. decision to suspend at least $900 million in security assistance, saying Washington's "arbitrary deadlines, unilateral pronouncements, and shifting goalposts are counterproductive" to addressing the threat of terrorism.
The White House is calling on Pakistan to do more to fight terrorism and says that it will announce "specific actions" within days to pressure Islamabad.
Officials in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region say a commander of the Afghan Haqqani Network, a militant group that is fighting against Afghan government and U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike.
Pakistani officials say at least nine people have been killed and about 50 others injured in a suicide attack on a church in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected a bid to disqualify opposition politician Imran Khan for concealing his financial assets, a charge that could have barred him from holding public office.
Hundreds of tribesmen on December 14 gathered in the Khyber tribal district to express their opposition to a proposal to merge Pakistan's tribal areas with the adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan's military says two of its soldiers, including an officer, were killed when militants opened fire on an army vehicle on patrol in a northwestern tribal district.
Pakistani officials say at least six people have been killed and eight others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan.
During a visit to Islamabad, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has reiterated a call on Pakistani leaders to "redouble" efforts to go after militants and terrorists operating within the country, the Pentagon says.
At least nine people have been killed after Pakistani Taliban gunmen dressed in all-enveloping burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in northwestern Pakistan, hospital sources and police tell RFE/RL.
A suspected U.S. drone strike has hit a militant compound in Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing three militants, Pakistani intelligence officials told RFE/RL.
Reports from Pakistan say the authorities have detained at least nine people over the killing of a couple who had contracted a marriage without permission from their elders.
Pakistani Islamist activists say they will call off their weeks-long protests after reaching agreement with the government for the resignation of the country’s law minister, possibly bringing an end to days of deadly clashes in the capital.
Islamist party activists have clashed with security forces for a second day on the outskirts of Islamabad, burning vehicles before withdrawing to a protest camp they have maintained for nearly three weeks.
At least four people have been killed and 22 wounded by a suicide bomber who attacked an army vehicle on the outskirts of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta.
Pakistan's government has authorized the military to deploy troops in the capital, Islamabad, where violent clashes between hard-line religious protesters and security forces killed at least one police officer and injured 150 other people.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has killed a senior regional police official in northwestern Pakistan and one of his guards, police said.
Officials say a head-on collision between a minibus and a truck loaded with coal in southern Pakistan has left at least 20 people dead and several others injured.
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