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 yesterday. Former lawmaker Maulana Noor Muhammad was among 26 people killed when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque in the volatile South Waziristan Agency. 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.