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Shiite Muslims chant slogans to condemn the sidesplitting of Shiite Muslims by gunmen successful an ambush successful Kurram district, during a objection successful Lahore, Pakistan. (AP photo)
Shiite and Sunni Muslim tribes successful Pakistan’s northwestern Kurram territory person reached a seven-day cease-fire statement aft convulsive clashes claimed astatine slightest 68 lives, officials said connected Sunday.
The unrest began Thursday erstwhile gunmen ambushed a Shiite convoy, sidesplitting 42 people. Retaliatory attacks followed, leaving dozens much dormant and galore injured. The unit stems from a long-standing onshore quality exacerbated by sectarian tensions.
Muhammad Ali Saif, a spokesperson for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government, announced the cease-fire, saying some groups person agreed to speech prisoners, including women, and instrumentality the bodies of the deceased.
Government officials, including a delegation that flew into Parachinar, the district’s main city, mediated the agreement by holding abstracted talks with Sunni and Shiite tribal elders implicit the weekend. “Positive developments person been made successful engagements with stakeholders,” Saif said.
Kurram, which borders Afghanistan, has a past of sectarian strife, with its bulk Pashtun colonisation divided betwixt Shiite and Sunni tribes. While tensions often revolve astir governance failures and tribal rivalries, Thursday’s onslaught reignited hostilities tied to the onshore dispute.
No radical has claimed work for the convoy ambush. Sectarian unit is not uncommon successful Pakistan, wherever Shiites marque up astir 15% of the colonisation successful a Sunni-majority country.
Efforts volition present absorption connected maintaining the cease-fire and uncovering a semipermanent solution to the dispute, officials said.
(With inputs from Reuters, AP)
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