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.
Peace envoy Salahuddin Rabbani, who chairs Afghanistan's so-called High Peace Council, departed for neighboring Pakistan expressing hope that "common efforts" could help foster reconciliation efforts in his country.
Police in Pakistan’s Swat Valley have arrested three members of a "jirga" tribal assembly who allegedly ordered that a 6-year-old girl be married to resolve a dispute among rival families.
A senior police investigator, at least three other police officers, and two civilians have been killed by a suicide bomber in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The bomber was on foot and targeted a senior investigator's vehicle outside a police station.
Four people were reported killed and at least 25 injured by a remote-control bomb that exploded outside a shrine in the city of Nowshera, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
Authorities in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have decided to rename a college after teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban last week.
Pakistani police officials said militants attacked a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan overnight, killing at least six police officers and wounding several others.
A powerful car-bomb explosion outside the offices of pro-government tribal elders in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 13 people.
Schools across Pakistan are holding prayers in support of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old peace campaigner shot by the Taliban earlier this week.
Imran Khan, a senior Pakistani politician, has declared the fighting in neighboring Afghanistan a "Jihad," or Islamic holy war "against foreign occupation."
A roadside bomb ripped through a commuter van in Pakistan's troubled northwestern tribal region on October 11, killing at least four people and wounding nine others.
More than 100 activists in northwestern Pakistan have rallied to protest Taliban militants' shooting of 14-year-old peace campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack against a Pakistani schoolgirl who gained international fame for writing diaries about Taliban atrocities and attending school despite hard-line threats.
The government of Pakistan's southern Sindh province announced a day of mourning after at least seven people were killed at a political rally in the rural Kairpur district.
Pakistani security forces have prevented a convoy protesting American drone strikes, headed by opposition politician Imran Khan, from entering a lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
A senior Al-Qaeda figure and at least four other suspected Islamist militants have been reported killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan.
At least three people were confirmed dead as Pakistan endured a day of protests against a film made in the United States and cartoons published in a French magazine that attack the Prophet Muhammad.
Pakistan's government has called on Muslims in the country to make this September 21 an official "day of expression of love for the Prophet [Muhammad]."
Unknown assailants attacked the roadworkers, all of them Pashtuns, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities say more than 190 people have been killed and more than 60 injured overnight after a fire in Karachi destroyed a garment factory where they had been locked in as workers.
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