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.
Pakistan's first-ever international snowboarding championship concluded on January 24 with successes being chalked up by both Pakistan and Afghanistan during the three-day event held in Malam Jabba -- Pakistan's only ski resort.
Hundreds of university students gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on January 22 to demand that they be allowed to write their exams online instead of being forced to take them in person in examination halls.
At least four members of Pakistan's paramilitary corps have been killed and five wounded in a bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, officials say.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that high-speed Internet connections will become operational in the tribal region of South Waziristan on January 20.
At least eight people have been killed in a traffic accident in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province on January 20, officials told RFE/RL.
Pakistan's opposition staged a massive rally in Islamabad against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of illegally raising campaign funds from outside the country.
Thousands of opposition supporters have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of illegally raising campaign funds from outside the country.
Pakistani authorities have rearrested a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist who is facing sedition charges almost a week after he was released on bail.
An alliance of the nine opposition parties has announced a fresh series of demonstrations across the country as they pressed ahead their campaign to force Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down.
Hundreds of students gathered in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on January 18 to demand that they be allowed to take exams virtually instead of being forced to be physically present in examination halls.
Pakistani security forces acting on intelligence raided a former insurgent stronghold in the country’s northwest and killed two Taliban militants, including one suspected of involvement in an October attack that killed six soldiers, the military said in a statement on January 18.
Pakistani security forces have detained and forcibly expelled a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, Sanna Ejaz, from the restive province of Balochistan.
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed on January 14 in an exchange of fire with militants in the country's North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.
Regional authorities in northwestern Pakistan say they have sacked or suspended dozens of police officials for failing to protect a century-old Hindu shrine from a mob attack last month.
Around 200 demonstrators participated in the second day of a sit-in in the Mir Ali area on January 13, complaining that the whereabouts of the four locals and their status are still unknown nearly a month after they were picked up by the military.
Hundreds of federal government employees rallied in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to call for an increase in their salaries in line with the rate of inflation. Employees marched through the city on January 12, criticizing the government for not keeping inflation under control.
Pakistani officials say a police officer has been killed as he was escorting a vaccination team in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- the latest attack against health workers taking part in a campaign to eradicate polio.
Pakistan's Foreign Office has reacted angrily to a U.S. State Department statement asking the country to do more to hold an extremist leader accountable.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated his call on Shi’ite ethnic Hazara protesters to bury the bodies of miners killed nearly a week ago in an attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, telling them not to "blackmail” the head of government.
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