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 newly elected lawmaker in northwestern Pakistan.
Taliban sources tell RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chose Khan Sayed as the TTP's new No. 2, shortly after Rehman's funeral.
RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal, quoting local and Taliban sources, reports that Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's second in command, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan.
Pakistani authorities have suspended a UN-supported polio vaccination program in the northwest of the country after gunmen attacked two female polio workers, killing one and injuring another.
A Peshawar city police superintendent said local religious leader Haji Hidayatullah survived the attack but his driver and bodyguard were killed.
A court in northwestern Pakistan has imposed one of the longest prison sentences in the country's history to two men for their part in terrorist attacks on Shi'ite Muslim mourners.
The Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI) party won a majority of seats in the northwestern province's assembly in the May 11 general elections.
Officials say the police chief of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province has narrowly escaped a suicide bomb attack.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has condemned the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s son, calling it a “reprehensible act of a cowardly enemy.”
A group of utility workers held by the Taliban for 16 months has been freed.
An unnamed police official at that station in Bannu city told RFE/RL that one policeman and two female civilians were killed.
Two bomb attacks targeting election campaign events in northwestern Pakistan have killed at least 12 people.
A bombing has killed at least 14 people at an election rally in the restive Kurram tribal area in northwestern Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb attack has targeted a vehicle of a candidate in next week's parliamentary elections.
Police said gunmen attacked the car of state prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar in Islamabad as he was driving to court.
A court in northwestern Pakistan has postponed its decision on the appeal of a doctor who allegedly helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden.
Said Ahmad Khan, a senior official in the Jahl Magsi area, told Radio Mashaal that unknown gunmen opened fire on independent candidate Abdul Fatih and killed him along with two of his relatives.
An explosion at a political party meeting in the city of Karachi has killed 11 people and wounded some 50 others.
Pakistani police officials say several people were killed when militants attacked a police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which borders on Afghanistan.
Four soldiers have been killed and four injured in a roadside-bomb attack in Pakistan's volatile North Waziristan region.
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