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.
A security source in Pakistan's Kurram tribal district say a man who tried to elope with a woman there has been stoned to death.
Visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, were expected to attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Iran to begin work on a gas pipeline between the two countries.
A correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal says an unmanned aircraft targeted two suspected militants in the town of Data Khel in tribal North Waziristan.
Armed men have kidnapped a provincial lawmaker in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan Province.
Police in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province say attackers on a motorcycle have shot dead local journalist Mahmud Afridi, the second slaying of a Pakistani journalist in less than a week.
Authorities are looking for clues after the prosecutor-general of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, Wasi Tarin, was reported missing by his family.
Unidentified attackers have shot dead a local journalist in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
A Pakistani policeman has been shot dead while protecting a polio vaccination team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Former Tehran prosecutor Said Mortazavi is set to go on trial in Tehran after being linked to the deaths of protesters arrested in the 2009 postelection crackdown.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrest of a former Taliban commander by Afghan security forces.
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered a “targeted operation” in Quetta in response to the February 16 bombing that killed 89 people.
The death toll from a bomb attack on a market on the edge of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan at the weekend has risen to 85.
The chief minister of northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has escaped unhurt after reportedly being targeted by a suicide bomber.
Three attacks in northwestern Pakistan on February 14 have left at least 18 dead and scores more injured.
Representatives of political and religious parties in Pakistan have gathered in Islamabad to discuss an offer of peace talks from the Pakistani Taliban.
Senior Pakistani and Afghan clerics have agreed to hold a peace conference on March 10.
Six members of the Pakistani security forces have been killed in a dawn raid today by militants on an army camp in the northwest of the country.
A Pakistani woman who says she was the victim of a kidnapping and gang-rape plans to appeal a court decision acquitting her alleged attackers.
Police in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province say at least 20 people were killed and dozens more have been wounded in a suicide bomb attack.
Afghan and Pakistani defense officials are discussing bilateral military cooperation, including the prospects of having the Afghan National Army trained by Pakistani military specialists.
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