Prominent Pakistani journalist Absar Alam says he has been wounded in a gun attack in front of his house in Islamabad, triggering condemnations from officials, journalists, and politicians.
Pakistani authorities used shipping containers to block main roads in and out of Islamabad, as protests continued following the anniversary of a French magazine's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
In Pakistan’s Sindh Province, influential cleric Mian Mitha operates what his opponents describe as a “conversion factory” in which young Hindu women are allegedly converted to Islam by force and married off to Muslim men. Few Hindu families feel empowered to challenge him.
As many as 1,000 Hindu girls in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam each year and married off to Muslim men. RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal spoke to desperate families who have been torn apart and questioned the clerics behind the alleged forced conversions.
Pakistan's interior minister says the government will seek a vote in parliament to expel the French ambassador after violent anti-France protests by Islamists.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 19 pleaded with a radical Islamist group to end its violent campaign to oust the French ambassador, saying the unrest was harming the nation.
Pakistani officials say at least three people have been killed in fresh clashes between police and supporters of a banned Islamist group seeking the expulsion of the French envoy over the publication of cartoons in France depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you the inside stories on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, whether the Taliban has turned over a new leaf, and how Pakistan is fighting the Frankenstein’s monster it once created.
Pakistani authorities have temporarily blocked multiple social media and instant messaging platforms following days of violent protests by followers of a radical Islamist party.
France is advising its citizens and companies to temporarily leave Pakistan following violent anti-French rallies in the South Asian nation.
The Pakistani government says it will ban a radical Islamist party that has spearheaded violent anti-French rallies in the South Asian nation.
A group of people in Pakistan's South Waziristan district have resorted to living in caves. Some were displaced by military operations and violence, others were driven to them by poverty. They say they can at least live in peace in the caves, despite the harsh conditions.
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