Pakistani officials announced a seven-day truce November 24 after days of bitter sectarian gunfights in the country’s northwest Kurram district that have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, but Kurram — in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and...

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