1.   Talks between the two clans have dragged on for years, however.

2.   The Millers and the Glenn family went to dinner after the launch, marking a reunion of sorts for the two clans.

3.   Police confiscated all weapons from the two clans.

4.   The remote region near the Syrian border is notorious for feuds among the various clans.

5.   The two clans used heavy artillery in the clashes.

6.   About a dozen members of the Bugti tribe have also been arrested, they said, adding that the two clans harbour old enmity.

7.   Their modern-day dispute is a complicated power struggle between the three clans.

8.   The two clans have clashed periodically since last March.

9.   It was not immediately known what triggered the latest violence, although the two clans have clashed repeatedly over the past two months over a misundertanding.