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 Pakistani tribunal has ruled that the formation of a special court that has handed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a death sentence was “unconstitutional.”
Authorities in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan have declared a state of emergency in seven districts after snowstorms and heavy rains killed at least 15 people over the past two days.
Two people were killed and 16 others were injured in a bomb blast in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.
A Pakistani jet crashed during training on January 7 in the eastern Punjab Province, killing the two pilots, the military said.
Ahsan Iqbal, a prominent member of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, was arrested on December 23 in Rawalpindi hours after publicly criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan.
A Muslim professor in Pakistan has been sentenced to death after being convicted of blasphemy.
The Pakistani government says it will seek to remove the judge who demanded, while sentencing former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death, that his body be publicly hanged for three days if he should die before being apprehended.
The Pakistani government has objected to the death sentence given to former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf by a special court, claiming that the right to a "fair trial" was not provided to the defendant.
Taliban militants in Pakistan have shot and killed two police officers who had been deployed to protect a polio vaccination team in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A top U.S. senator said that President Donald Trump is expected to announce a U.S. troop drawdown from Afghanistan this week.
Pakistan has launched a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign as the number of people affected by the crippling disease surged to more than 100 this year.
Dozens of people attended the funeral of a local leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party who was shot dead in the northwestern Swat Valley.
Amnesty International has joined Pakistani human rights defenders in condemning the authorities’ response to peaceful student protests, calling it a “brazen violation” of their rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
Pakistan's top court has given the government one more day to explain why it had decided to extend the term of current army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa by three years.
A Pakistani human rights activist who was working on cases of human rights violations has been missing for more than a week.
A radical Pakistani cleric and other opposition leaders have called on their supporters to stop blocking roads in the country’s major cities, saying the protest action is harming ordinary people.
Police say unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, killing a senior counterterrorism officer and wounding his driver and a passerby before fleeing the scene.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to opposition leader Maryam Nawaz, who is facing money-laundering charges.
Four Pakistani soldiers have been killed in two separate bomb explosions in the North Waziristan tribal district, local officials say.
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