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.
The ongoing closure of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has left hundreds of trucks stranded on both sides, severely affecting cross-border trade. As a result, fruit and vegetable prices have surged in Pakistan, with dealers reporting sharp increases due to halted supplies from Afghanistan.
Fighting along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, along with air strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul, on October 15, has killed dozens and led to widespread destruction, according to survivors.
More clashes have broken out along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with dozens of Taliban fighters reportedly killed on October 15. Fighting near the Pakistani border town of Chaman followed three days of escalating conflict between the two countries.
Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to a temporary cease-fire on October 15 after deadly air strikes and ground fighting raised fears of a full-blown conflict between the neighbors.
Commerce has ground to a halt at a key border checkpoint between Pakistan and Afghanistan following deadly clashes between the two countries. RFE/RL spoke to truckers who have been stuck at the Torkham crossing. Deadly clashes erupted on October 11 at several locations along the frontier.
Fierce fighting has broken out in at least five locations, with multiple soldiers killed, in a flare-up of violence between Pakistani and Afghan forces near the two countries' tense border.
At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured in an attack by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group in the Bar area of South Waziristan on September 13, according to the Pakistani military.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Afghans in Pakistan had until August 31 to return home or face forced repatriation.
Thousands of Afghans are returning home from Pakistan after Islamabad imposed an August 31 deadline for them to return or face forcible repatriation. The exodus comes despite a 6.0-magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that killed more than 1,400 people and left many more homeless.
Pakistan continued to be hit by torrential rains with more than 20 people dying on August 20 in fresh flooding that has crippled several parts of the country over the last weeks.
Recovery crews looked for bodies and dug through debris in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province after deadly floods killed more than 350 people in the region. RFE/RL spoke to people in villages hit by flash flooding and landslides that were triggered by heavy monsoon rains.
More than 340 people have been killed in northwestern Pakistan, where thousands of rescuers struggled through rain and mud following deadly landslides and flooding that buried villages.
Scores of people have been killed in Pakistan after torrential rain caused flash floods that destroyed dozens of houses and left roads covered in water and debris as emergency responders struggled to deliver aid and carry out evacuations.
At least 11 suspects have been arrested in connection with the brutal killing of a Pakistani couple in a remote mountainous area of Balochistan.
At least 13 soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan.
Dr. Shazia Khpalwak visits remote areas of Pakistan's Balochistan Province to provide care for mothers and newborns. Her work touches many lives, but factors like water shortages and poor nutrition create widespread health risks beyond one doctor’s reach.
Dr. Shazia Khpalwak says her patients in rural Balochistan lack clean drinking water, have poor nutrition, and don't have access to vaccines. Khpalwak works to improve lives by getting medication and advice to struggling mothers.
A Pakistani police officer was killed when gunmen opened fire on a delegation of health workers carrying out a polio vaccination drive in the volatile Balochistan province.
At least five people, including three children, were killed and 35 others injured when an explosion occurred near a school bus in Balochistan Province, a vast mineral-rich province in southwestern Pakistan that has been the scene of a simmering separatist insurgency for nearly a quarter-century.
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