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.
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.
Thousands of supporters of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party headed from Peshawar -- the capital of Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province -- to rally in the city of Lahore on September 21 and demand the release of the party's founder, former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
At least six Pakistani soldiers were killed, and 10 others wounded in South Waziristan when a group of heavily armed militants attacked an army check-post overnight, officials said on September 20.
At least five people died and more than 20 others were injured on September 14 when a bus ran off the road and plunged into a ravine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province, local officials told RFE/RL.
At least three people were killed in separate incidents in the Bajaur district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the local police force has confirmed to RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
Police in Islamabad have launched a crackdown against the central leadership of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party.
Hundreds of policemen in northwestern Pakistan were blocking the Indus Highway that links Peshawar with the port city of Karachi on September 9 to protest alleged interference by Pakistan's military and its intelligence agencies in their daily work.
Fighting erupted again on September 9 between Taliban forces and Pakistani security forces in the Kurram-Khost border areas, with eyewitnesses saying the violence includes heavy weaponry and one elder saying a Pakistani soldier had been killed, although that could not be confirmed.
Six Pakistani police officers guarding a team of polio vaccination workers were injured when their police van struck a land mine in northwestern Pakistan early on September 9, an official told Radio Mashaal.
Supporters of the imprisoned Pakistani leader Imran Khan have gathered to demand his release, amid tight security.
Bibi Rafia has taught for 24 years at a girls' school in Pakistan where there is just one room for five classes. Rafia says it's hard for the children to learn in the crowded environment -- and adds that if they need the bathroom they have to use a neighbor's house.
The top spokesman for the Pakistani Army said on September 5 that since the beginning of 2024 the army has conducted a total of 32,173 anti-terrorism operations in which 193 officers and soldiers have been killed.
Several people were injured and around a dozen were detained during a protest by local government workers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the chaiman of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and a veteran politician, has resigned his seat in Pakistan's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.
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