06/18/2013 14:35 GMT

PESHAWAR, June 18, 2013 (AFP) - A suicide bombing at a funeral in Pakistan on Tuesday killed at least 27 people including a provincial lawmaker, police said, the deadliest attack to hit the country in more than three months.

The attack in Shergarh town in Mardan district, 145 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Islamabad, came during prayers for the owner of a local fuel station.

17 June 2013 – A 15-year-old Pakistani girl targeted by assassins – Malala Yousafzai – is the first signatory of a new worldwide petition calling for urgent action to ensure the right of every child to safely attend school, launched today with the backing of the United Nations Special Envoy for Education.

The launch came in the wake of an attack that killed 14 students at an all girls' college in Pakistan, emphasized Special Envoy Gordon Brown, in an op-ed published today in the Huffington Post.

Vienna, Austria, June 17, 2013. The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), meeting in its 143rd Session on June 13, has approved 17 loans and grants totaling over US$234 million to boost socio-economic development in over 44 partner countries. The majority of the public sector funding will co-finance transportation, energy and water supply and sanitation projects.

The approved public sector loans are as follows:

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PESHAWAR: Two polio workers were killed in an attack on the polio team in Swabi on Sunday, June 16.

According to sources, two polio workers were on duty in the area of Kandaro when they were attacked and killed. District police officer (DPO) Dr. Mian Muahmmad Saeed confirmed the deaths.

Sources said that school teacher Muhammad Shiraz and health department official Aziz Muhammad were in Pabaini village when they were attacked. According to the DPO, both workers were on duty without any security.

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by Maaz Khan

QUETTA, June 15, 2013 (AFP) - At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan on Saturday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors, officials said.

A bomb attack on a bus in Quetta, capital of the restive Baluchistan province, killed 14 women students, and another 11 people died in a blast at a city hospital around 90 minutes later.

La FAO prévient que la forte production de blé de 2013 pourrait être compromise par les rouilles du blé

Mr. Khan is a 56 year old man who was a permanent resident in Khyber Agency, Pakistan. He used to be a farmer and owned two acres of land which he cultivated and used to make his living in order to provide for his three daughters, son and wife. With the increased violence in Tirah Valley where Mr. Khan’s village is, he and his family were forced to migrate to the Peshawar district.

KARACHI: A 32-year-old man died of dengue fever here in a local hospital on Thursday, FP news desk reports.

According to reports, Farhan, resident of Gulistan-e-Jauhar was under treatment from one week but could not survive.

This is the second death occurred in the current year due to the fever in the city. Before this a 20-yaer-old girl died due to the dengue fever.

Doctors told media that the mosquito causing the dengue fever becomes active in hot areas and Karachi’s weather condition favors the mosquito.