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.
Civilians in a remote area of western Pakistan have accused the country’s powerful army of mass arrests and torture after the Taliban claimed a bomb attack that killed and injured members of the army.
Abdullah Khan's 11-month-old son, Hamza, contracted polio after the family refused to let a visiting health team in Pakistan's Balochistan region give his child vaccination drops.
A Pakistani official says a roadside explosion in the northwestern South Waziristan tribal district has left three soldiers dead and another wounded.
Rescuers are continuing to search for victims of flash flooding that has left hundreds dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Fifteen are reported to have died in Shahgram village Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district where video images from August 29 show heavily damaged buildings and streets covered in mud, swept up trees and boulders. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The Taliban has formed a new 20-member department responsible for holding intra-Afghan talks, as well as negotiations with the United States.
Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is heading the militants' delegation
Pakistan has reopened the Chaman border crossing between its Balochistan Province and the Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar to protest power outages.
Hundreds of private schoolteachers rallied in the northwestern Pakistani region of Swat on August 17 to demand an immediate reopening of schools that were closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
A bomb targeting a vehicle from Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) exploded in a busy market in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on August 10, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others, police and hospital officials said.
A Pakistani woman is making soccer balls and selling them on an Islamabad road to support her family after husband was paralyzed four years ago. Abida Bibi hopes to pay for her four daughters to complete their education.
Pakistan said it will lift most of the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions after seeing a gradual drop in new cases during the past month.
Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan's major cities on August 5 to mark the date a year ago when neighboring India scrapped the special status of territory under its administration in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
A Pakistani schoolteacher is selling fried peas on the streets after the closure of his private school. Many private schoolteachers in the country are not receiving their salaries due to school closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Police say five Pakistani counterterrorism commandos and two suspected militants were killed in a raid on a militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan.
Dozens of protesters have staged a demonstration in Peshawar to condemn an assassination attempt on Fazal Khan, an ethnic Pashtun rights activist.
A prominent Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the military has returned home after being kidnapped in Islamabad.
The Pakistani government has welcomed a UN decision to add the leader of a Taliban militant group to a sanctions list
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