Sources of Political Administration told Radio Pakistan that people were offering Juma prayers when a suicide attacker exploded himself.
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At least 25 people were killed and many injured in a blast in Pakistan.
According to an NDTV report, the suicide bomber who was present inside the mosque yelled “allahu akbar” before triggering the blast.
“Today our suicide bomber has attacked the so-called peace lashkar (vigilante force) in Mohmand agency’s Anbar district”, the group’s spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in an email to reporters.
The attack came a day after a woman was killed in the same area, the Mohmand district, after militants threw grenades and opened fire at the house of a pro-government tribal elder, officials said.
The locals were targeted in a terror attack whilst they offered Friday prayers in a local mosque.
Khan said local residents and tribal police helped ferry the wounded to hospital.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to arrest the suicide bomber’s facilitators who dropped him nearby the mosque.
Mr Akbar said in the last two months, there had been major attacks in northern provinces, but noted a lack of global sympathy for the victims.
“I brought my pickup truck, loaded three wounded and drove them to the hospital in Khar”, the nearest town, he said.
He said the USA would stand with the Pakistani people against the scourge of terrorism and would continue to work with the Islamabad government against those who committed “such outrageous attacks”.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Pakistani Taliban in particular routinely attack soft targets such as courts, schools and mosques.
Security in the country has since improved, with fewer attacks than in previous years.
The violence sporadically continue in the area despite the Pakistani military began operations there in 2014 to reduce the strength of the Taliban.
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He condemned the suicide bombing and said “attacks by terrorists can not shatter the government’s resolve to eliminate terrorism from the country”.
