Police have commonly struggled to manage violence in Kurram, which was a part of the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas till it merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018.
The ceasefire settlement got here after a provincial authorities delegation held talks with the Shiite group on Saturday and met the Sunni group on Sunday.
A safety official within the provincial capital of Peshawar instructed AFP that the negotiators’ helicopter got here underneath hearth when it arrived within the area, though nobody was injured.
Once a truce is agreed, “we are able to begin addressing the underlying points,” provincial Law Minister Aftab Alam Afridi stated late Sunday.
Last month no less than 16 folks, together with three girls and two youngsters, have been killed in a sectarian conflict in Kurram.
Previous clashes in July and September had killed dozens of individuals and ended solely after a jirga, or tribal council, known as a ceasefire.
Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission stated 79 folks have been killed between July and October in sectarian clashes.
Several hundred folks demonstrated Friday in opposition to violence in Pakistan’s two largest cities, Karachi and Lahore.
