BBC News with Marion Marshall

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram says it carried out the wave of shootings and bombings in the northeast of the country, which left at least 65 people dead. Grant Ferrett reports.

In recent months, Boko Haram has become more

brazen

and deadly in its attacks. In Damaturu, gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked apparently at will for several hours, targeting police stations, government offices, churches and a bank. The wave of violence began on Friday in the city of Maiduguri when three suicide bombers

blew themselves up

at the headquarters of the very security forces who've been deployed to tackle Boko Haram. The group, which says it wants to establish a Muslim state in northern Nigeria, has

warned of

further attacks.

A Pakistani security court has charged two senior police officers and five Taliban militants in connection with the 2007 assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. She died in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi. One of the officers charged was police chief there at the time. Owen Bennett-Jones has been following the case.

There is no flow of evidence that people way above this police officer in the establishment of Pakistan had some involvement in her murder, and most Pakistanis believe that to be the case. This police officer, I'm sure, considered himself a

fall guy

. I mean what you have to consider is that the Taliban militants, so-called, who are being charged in this were children. I mean the person who killed Benazir Bhutto is 15 years old, and some of these people who've been arrested and now charged, they were school