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.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 12 ordered that special seats in national and provincial assemblies for women and minorities be given to jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party.
The United Nations' high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, who is on a three-day visit to Pakistan, met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 7.
Hundreds of residents in Pakistan’s Swat valley and Orakzai tribal district held rallies to condemn a newly announced military operation by the federal government, with one movement calling for a nationwide protest on July 7.
Thousands rallied in Pakistan's Swat district on July 5 as the country's northwest was bracing for a counterterrorism operation. The protesters warned that earlier military maneuvers had led to vast displacement and material damage.
At least three people were killed and eight others including two policemen injured in an explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern Mardan district on July 5.
A former senator and four people in his entourage were killed on July 3 in a blast in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a heavily loaded bus overturned in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 30.
Twenty-two people have been arrested in the restive Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province following mob violence and the killing of a local tourist accused of blasphemy.
Pakistan's military said at least five soldiers in a troop convoy were killed by a roadside bomb in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province near the Afghan border, in an attack claimed by the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TPP), a longtime ally of the Taliban.
A Pakistani man who was visiting the country’s scenic Swat Valley as a tourist on June 20 was beaten to death and his body set on fire by an angry mob after he was accused of blasphemy.
On World Refugee Day, the plight of millions of displaced Afghans is illustrated by Abdul Raziq, a bricklayer at a kiln in Pakistan. Having fled his homeland decades ago, Raziq has done manual labor for years, but he still struggles to get by. But going back to Afghanistan would be worse, he said.
Reporters in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province protested on June 19 after a fellow journalist was shot and killed by unidentified armed men.
Hundreds of people gathered in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district on June 19 for the funeral of journalist Khalil Afridi, who was gunned down a day earlier in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Four passengers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Pakistan’s northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on June 16.
In Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, there are persistent obstacles to equality for women and girls. For Huma Hashmat, a university student in Peshawar, greater autonomy starts with riding her motorbike, a non-traditional activity for women that's slowly gaining ground.
Six Pakistani security troops were killed in an explosion and exchange of gunfire with militants on June 9 at a security post near Sultan Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, an official said.
The Islamabad high court on June 3 overturned a treason conviction against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, although the Pakistani opposition leader remains imprisoned on other charges.
Four army soldiers were killed and three injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Thousands of people, mainly students, marched from Peshawar University in northwestern Pakistan to the city's U.S. Consulate to demand an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza. Demonstrators called for a cease-fire and for immediate aid to the Palestinian territory to ease an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Seven Pakistani soldiers, including an army captain, were killed in separate clashes with the Pakistani Taliban on May 26-27, according to the military's media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
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