At least 38 people, including a former parliamentarian, were killed and nearly 50 others injured in a suicide attack on a mosque and two bombings across northwest Pakistan on Monday.Former lawmaker Maulana Noor Muhammad was among 26 people killed when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque in the volatile South Waziristan Agency.The attacker detonated his suicide jacket as Muhammad was delivering a sermon to a group of worshippers in the mosque at Wana, the headquarters of the tribal region. About 30 others were injured in the attack.Officials said the death toll could rise as many of the injured were in a critical condition. The mosque, located within a religious school run by Muhammad, was severely damaged by the blast.Maulana Noor Muhammad, a noted cleric who was elected to the previous National Assembly or lower house of parliament as an independent candidate, had survived several attempts on his life.Earlier in the day, eight persons were killed and 10 more injured when a bomb ripped through a jirga or tribal council in the restive Kurram tribal region.In the third attack, three members of a “peace committee” or anti-Taliban militia and a child were killed and six more injured when a roadside bomb went off in Mattani area, 30 km south of provincial capital Peshawar.