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.
Pakistani officials say at least 13 people were killed and dozens wounded when a large explosion hit a protest rally near the Punjab provincial assembly in the city of Lahore on February 13.
A junior Afghan diplomat has been shot dead in the country's consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in what officials described as a personal dispute.
A Pakistani university professor and human rights activist who disappeared earlier this month from the capital, Islamabad, is "fine and safe", his brother has confirmed in an interview with RFE/RL.
The death toll from a bomb explosion on January 21 at a market in a mainly Shi'ite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has risen to 21.
The National Commission for Human Rights of Pakistan (NCHRP) has urged the Interior Ministry to locate five rights activists and bloggers who have been missing since last week.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on January 6, wounding five people.
At least six Pakistani security service forces have been wounded by an explosion in the southwestern city of Quetta.
A Pakistani passenger plane carrying 48 people on a domestic flight has crashed on a mountainside in the north of the country, killing all aboard.
Two Chinese engineers were killed by unknown assailants on November 26 in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.
Officials say a bomb blast at a Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least 50 and wounded more than 100.
Pakistan has deported an Afghan woman whose 1985 photograph on the cover of National Geographic magazine became a symbol of Afghanistan during war in the 1980s.
An Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine is to be deported from Pakistan after serving a 15-day jail sentence.
A Pakistani court has rejected the bail plea of an Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine.
Reports from Pakistan say at least seven workers have been killed and more than 50 injured by a series of explosions at a facility where large sea vessels are dismantled.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in southwestern Pakistan that left at least 61 people dead.
Pakistani officials say at least 24 people have been killed after two buses collided in the southern province of Punjab.
Gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan have killed four Shi'ite women from the ethnic Hazara minority after stopping a passenger bus that they were traveling on.
A curfew has been imposed in a tribal district in northwest Pakistan where a suicide bombing killed at least 30 people.
A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives in a crowded mosque in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, killing at least 24 people, including four children.
Pakistan and Russia will hold their first-ever joint military exercises later this year, signalling what may be an emerging realignment in South Asia amid cooling relations between Islamabad and Washington.
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