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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region ...

More than 170 people have been injured in the sectarian violence raging for the last last ten days, authorities said.