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.
Unidentified gunmen have killed a secular female politician in Pakistan's restive northwest.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has marked his country's Independence Day with a call to defeat terrorism.
At least 30 people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral procession in the country's volatile southwest.
A little-known Pakistani militant group says it is holding the kidnapped son of Pakistan's former prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Local Pakistani officials told RFE/RL's Mashaal Radio that gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying an army colonel and a captain as well as a local police superintendent in the Chilas district of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pakistani authorities have suspended 27 law-enforcement officers suspected of neglect after militants attacked a heavily guarded prison and freed around 250 prisoners in the country's northwest.
Taliban militants have launched a coordinated assault on a prison in the northwestern Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan, reportedly freeing more than 250 prisoners.
Gunmen have attacked a coast guard checkpost in Pakistan's southwestern Pakistan Balochistan Province, killing seven coast guards and injuring at least five others.
Officials in northwest Pakistan have told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that the death toll from twin bombings has risen to at least 53, with more than 180 people injured.
Pakistani authorities have found 20 bodies in a restive northwestern tribal region.
Tribal elders and shopkeepers in northwestern Pakistan have banned women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative present.
A top Pakistani official will visit Afghanistan in an effort to improve relations between the often-quarreling neighbors.
Police and local residents told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Malik Hashim Khan, his son, and a nephew were traveling in the city of Bannu on June 26 when their vehicle was hit by the remotely controlled roadside bomb.
Gunmen have stormed a hotel in northern Pakistan. Police say nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani were killed in the raid early on June 23 in Gilgit-Baltistan Province.
Pakistan's government has confirmed reports that it helped mediate contacts between the Taliban and the United States that are expected to lead to direct talks in Doha, Qatar.
Five Pakistani Army soldiers reportedly have been killed during an attack on their military convoy on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people.
A government official in the Pakistani city of Quetta has been killed in a gun battle in a hospital where female survivors of a deadly bus bombing were receiving treatment.
Pakistani officials say three doctors, their driver, and another man traveling with them have been kidnapped in southern Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
Jehangir Azam Wazir, a deputy district chief of Jamrud tribal area where the incident took place, said six people on the trucks were killed in the June 10 assault.
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