HANGU: Shops and business centres remained closed here and tensions ran high some 40 days after the bombing of an Ashura procession that killed 45 people. Shias and Sunnis have not reached a peace agreement and a 12-member government committee was talking with both sects towards this end, official sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. They said there was little hope that normalcy would return to the city, devastated by post-bombing violence. Inspector General Police (NWFP) Riffat Pasha visited the area to appraise the security situation. The law and order situation was very tense, he added.Pasha said the provincial government had approved the establishment of another police station and deployed 100 more policemen to stop sabotage and terrorism in the area.