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 private school authorities have banned private schools from having copies of the book by Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education activist who was seriously injured when she was shot by the Taliban in 2012.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani Taliban, has selected Mullah Fazlullah to be the group's new leader.
Pakistan's state body on religious issues has approved the practice of in vitro fertilization, also known as test-tube babies.
The Pakistani Taliban has appointed an interim chief after the death of the militant group's leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone attack.
Pakistani Taliban sources have confirmed the group's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed by a suspected U.S. drone strike on November 1 in Northern Waziristan.
A suspected U.S. drone is reported to have struck an alleged militant compound in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
Three men have been arrested in a remote village in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in connection with the illegal marriages of two underage girls.
At least nine people have been killed in separate acts of violence in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, in the last 24 hours.
Police in Pakistan's restive northern city of Peshawar say they have arrested four men suspected of involvement in a September 29 market bombing that killed at least 40 people.
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a senior politician in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
Police in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district have arrested five men for their involvement in the marriage of a 6-year-old girl.
Unknown assailants have killed four policemen in northwestern Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says some 2,000 men from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region are missing after military operations there.
Two separate bomb blasts in busy markets in Pakistan have killed at least six people.
The attack occurred on the third and last day of a UN-backed vaccination campaign in a Peshawar suburb.
A roadside bomb has killed at least three soldiers in northwestern Pakistan.
Last month, the Pakistani government organized a similar meeting that ended with participants unanimously calling for peace talks with militants.
Members of the Pakistani Taliban have attacked the home of rival militant commander Mullah Nabi Hanafi in northwestern Pakistan, with at least 15 persons killed in the battle.
The provincial government of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province says the official death toll from two recent earthquakes stands at 400.
An association of hard-line Islamic clerics running Sunni religious schools in Pakistan has called on the government and the Taliban to start peace talks.
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