ISLAMABAD Three days of bitter sectarian gunfights in northwestern Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said on Nov. 24. Pakistan is a Sunni -majority country but Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan, has a large Shiite population and the communities have clashed for decades. The latest bout of violence began on Nov. 21 when two separate convoys of Shiite Muslims traveling under police escort were ambushed,

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