Israr Alam Mohmand is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
Associations of doctors and nurses in Pakistan say that more than 150 healthcare workers in the country have contracted the coronavirus so far due to a lack of the equipment necessary to protect against infection.
Activists in a remote northwestern Pakistani district have urged local authorities to swiftly act to end a tribal ban that prohibits women from visiting the local market.
Pakistan has offered new concessions to China in a visible effort to revive economic relations with the neighboring giant.
Lawmakers and officials have joined relatives in denouncing a controversial former Sikh lawmaker in Pakistan for seeking asylum in neighboring India after he accused the Muslim-majority country of mistreating its non-Muslim minorities.
The Taliban have returned to a northwestern Pakistani region where thousands were killed and millions displaced as Islamabad claimed to end years of insurgent control in a major military offensive a decade ago.
One of Pakistan’s most prominent journalists says the country’s security establishment cut short his interview with a former president shortly after it began on an independent television channel on July 1.
As police investigate why a mob of fellow students would lynch Mashal Khan, the Pakistani student's outspokenness and social media footprint stand out.
Authorities in one of Pakistan’s most underdeveloped provinces, where millions of children are still unable to go to school, have even failed to spend their annual budgetary allocation for education.
A recent powerful earthquake has imperiled the future of tens of thousands of students as they struggle to continue education in schools and colleges destroyed or partially damaged by the tremor.
Weeks after its launch, a Pakistani military offensive in a northwestern region appears to have had little impact on dismantling Taliban and allied extremist groups.
