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.
At least 12 people have been killed and some 70 injured when a train carrying about 300 passengers derailed in a mountainous area of southwestern Pakistan.
Pakistan's media regulator has directed private television channels to restrict coverage of 72 organizations with links to militants or risk losing their license to broadcast.
An unidentified gunman has killed a journalist in the northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Afghanistan in decades has rocked the country's north, leaving heavy casualties and damage in its wake across South Asia.
A Pakistani journalist has been killed in the southern port city of Karachi.
A top official in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province says the leader of the banned separatist Baluch Liberation Front (BLF) has been killed.
A local politician has been killed after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Pakistan's volatile northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
A suicide bomber has struck outside a local government office in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least three people and wounding more than 50 others.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is due to arrive in Kazakhstan on August 25 at the start of a two-day visit.
Gunmen On Motorcycles Kill Young Actress In Northwestern Pakistan
An official Taliban statement on August 1 denied Pakistani media reports that the founder of the Haqqani network -- a militant group affiliated with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda -- died about a year ago.
Pakistan has announced that peace talks between Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have been postponed after the reported death of Mullah Omar.
Pakistan's government says a meeting on July 7 between Afghan government and Afghan Taliban representatives ended with an agreement to continue talks toward achieving peace and reconciliation.
Pakistani health officials say more than 25 people died from heatstroke in the southern province of Sindh on June 30.
At least two people were killed and nine injured during clashes between security forces and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bannu town in northwestern Pakistan.
Reports from Pakistan say at least five people died on June 20 as a result of sweltering temperatures in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces during what was one of the hottest days of 2015 so far.
A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle attacked a vehicle carrying a deputy commander of police in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least three people and wounding six others.
Police in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, have dispersed hundreds of protesters who were staging a sit-in in front of the governor's office to protest what they say is a lack of protection by the government.
Some 200 religious scholars have issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against suicide attacks.
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