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.
Gunmen have opened fire on a bus carrying members of the minority Ismaili sect in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing at least 43 people in an attack that drew swift condemnation from the Pakistani government, India, and the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community.
As many as six people, including a pro-government tribal elder, were killed as a remote-controlled bomb hit a vehicle in Pakistan's Bajaur tribal district on May 11.
A Pakistani judicial commission on alleged election rigging is due to hear testimony from five witnesses on May 11.
Pakistani security officials say a gun battle between two Pakistani tribes over disputed mountain territory close to the Afghan border was continuing early on May 10, with at least 47 people killed and 25 injured.
At least seven people, including two ambassadors, were killed when a Pakistani military helicopter crashed in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region on May 8.
A Pakistani court has announced life sentences for 10 people convicted of involvement in the 2012 shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.
A bomb fashioned out of flowerpots exploded outside a police station in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on April 24, wounding six policemen and three other people.
The Pakistani military said on April 23 that at least 47 Taliban fighters have been killed in air strikes over the last two days in the North Waziristan tribal area.
Pakistan has reportedly assured China that it will establish a "special security division" for Chinese workers attached to the multibillion-dollar Pakistan-China Economic Corridor project in the country.
Pakistani state media says talks focusing on multibillion-dollar investment deals are under way between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Islamabad.
Gunmen claiming to be Islamic militants have shot and wounded an American woman in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, leaving leaflets that named her and said she was targeted because she was from the United States.
Government and Taliban sources say that a key commander in the Taliban-linked Haqqani network has been killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area.
A Pakistani security force claims to have killed militants who carried out a deadly attack on construction workers at a dam site over the weekend.
Officials in Pakistan say gunmen attacked a dam construction site in southwestern Balochistan Province, killing at least 20 workers and wounding three others.
Pakistani officials said on March 27 that seven officers were killed in two separate Taliban attacks targeting police.
Unidentified assailants have shot dead the former lawyer for a doctor who helped the CIA locate Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden.
A Pakistani court has ruled as void the detention of the alleged mastermind of deadly attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008 and ordered his release
Four suspected Taliban militants have been killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party appeared on track to strengthen its representation in parliament after elections to the upper house.
Pakistani lawmakers are voting for new senators in an election that could increase Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ability to pass laws.
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