In Pakistan, at least 34 people have been killed and several others injured in a suicide bombing at a funeral procession in Peshawar. Officials said the funeral was for the wife of a pro-government ethnic Pashtun tribal elder in the Matani area in the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Several anti-Taliban tribal groups are based in Matani and they are often targeted by the insurgents. A spokesman for the Taliban told the BBC that they carried out the bombing. He said it was in retaliation for the support by local tribal militia of the ongoing anti-Taliban operation by Pakistan's security forces. The attack comes a day after at least 26 people were killed and more than 120 injured in a car bomb explosion at a gas station Faisalabad. The Taliban said they were behind yesterday's attack.