Sectarian gunfights between feuding communities in northwest Pakistan continued on November 27, a local government official said, as the death toll from a week-long spate of violence rose to 89. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, but Kurram district — in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and...

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