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 women's freedom march in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, was disrupted on March 8 as its participants were pelted with stones from a counterprotest held by Islamists and conservatives. At least seven people were reported injured.
A local leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and member of an anti-militant group has been gunned down in the country's restive northwest.
Pakistani authorities have released a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, weeks after he was arrested on charges including sedition.
Dozens of Pakistani demonstrators blocked a highway to Afghanistan on February 23 in a sit-in protest against the killing of a young man by security forces. The blockade has been held intermittently near the town of Landi Kotal, in northwestern Pakistan, since February 22.
Pakistan health officials say soybean dust from shipping containers, not a toxic gas leak, likely was responsible for the deaths of 14 people in a Karachi neighborhood this week.
Pakistani police say a powerful suicide bombing has killed at least eight people and wounded 16 others at an Islamist rally in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province.
Police in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh have found the dead body of a local journalist in an irrigation waterway.
A court in Pakistan on February 15 ordered the release of a Pashtun leader, weeks after he was arrested on sedition charges.
The United States has praised the jailing of the alleged mastermind of deadly 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai as a "step forward" for Pakistan.
A Pakistani court has jailed the alleged mastermind of deadly 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai to a total of 11 years in two terrorism-financing cases.
After RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal published a report on the sick child, a Pakistani official stepped forward to make sure she would be reunited with her family.
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament has adopted a nonbinding resolution calling for public hangings of people convicted of the sexual abuse and murder of children -- a move that was condemned by the opposition and human rights activists.
Two Pakistani soldiers and five militants have been killed in a shootout in the northwestern region of North Waziristan, the military says.
Unidentified attackers have shot dead two women working in an anti-polio drive in northwestern Pakistan.
Pakistan closed a key border crossing with Afghanistan after two mortar shells landed on Pakistani territory from across the border, officials say.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns to voice anger over the detention of an ethnic Pashtun rights activist in Pakistan.
The founder of a Pakistani civil rights group has been detained and accused of inciting violence against the state. Manzoor Pashteen, leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), was arrested in the early hours of January 27 and ordered to be held in police custody for 14 days by a court in Peshaw
Authorities in Pakistan have temporarily stopped the release of a movie that tackles moral policing and intolerance in society after receiving complaints by a hard-line Islamist party.
Pakistan on January 20 approved the import of 300,000 tons of wheat to alleviate the effects of a shortage of flour supplies that has triggered a crisis for Prime Minister Imran Khan's government.
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