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.
Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, calling for Prime Minister Imran Khan's resignation over economic hardships.
At least 65 people were killed when a passenger train caught fire in central Pakistan, a provincial minister said on October 31.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif so he can seek medical treatment.
A Pakistani judge has ordered the father of exiled human rights activist Gulalai Ismail be held in detention while awaiting trial for supporting of a movement that campaigns for civil rights for ethnic Pashtuns, his lawyer says.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been convicted on corruption charges, has been moved from prison to hospital after his health deteriorated.
Afghanistan says it has shut down its consulate in Peshawar in protest at a police raid at the northwestern Pakistani city’s Afghan Market.
The government of Pakistan's Balochistan has defended its decision to ban two lawmakers from the province.
A senior Taliban delegation has met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad in an effort to revive Afghan peace negotiations that have included trips to Russia, China, and Iran.
At least two people were killed in renewed gunfire exchanges between Pakistani and Indian border forces late on September 29 in the disputed region of Kashmir, Pakistani police said.
At least three people were killed, including an opposition politician, and seven others injured in a bomb blast on September 28 in Pakistan’s southwestern town of Chaman in the province of Balochistan.
Pakistan has closed all border crossings with Afghanistan after the Taliban threatened to disrupt upcoming presidential polls in the war-wracked country.
At least 22 people were killed and more than 300 injured in a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Pakistan and was felt as far away as the Indian capital, New Delhi, officials say.
Two members of Pakistan's parliament and leaders of a civil rights movement who had spent months in detention on terrorism charges have been released on bail and other conditions that supporters say are harsh.
A Pakistani court has rejected a request by the parents of a Pakistani social-media star allegedly murdered by her brothers to free them.
Pakistan's government says Indian troops have fired across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two civilians and wounding one.
At least four people were killed and six were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on August 18, officials say.
Pakistanis outraged by the killing of a 4-year-old boy set a local police station in the northwest of the country on fire on August 18 as scores of locals protested the police failure to protect residents and solve the crime.
Pakistan says it is downgrading its relations with nuclear rival India, suspending bilateral trade, and expelling New Delhi's top envoy, as tensions soar over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
India has revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country, the most far-reaching political move on the troubled Himalayan territory in nearly seven decades.
Up to 3,000 journalists have been laid off in Pakistan over the last year. With the country's traditional media industry in crisis, some unemployed journalists have started up their own digital outlets while others have left the business altogether.
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