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No group has said it carried out the attacks yet but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram Islamists.

The Kuje and Nyanya suburbs of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were yesterday night rocked by a series of bomb blasts, a year after they’d had relative peace from bomb explosions.

The attacks targeted the Ajilari Cross evening market area and neighbouring Gomari, hitting worshippers at a mosque and football fans watching a televised match.

The source also disclosed that people were surprised to discover that the bombers were actually males dressed like females after security came to the scene.

The federal government has insisted that it is winning the war against Boko Haram despite all challenges and campaign of calumny by the fifth columnists. Since 2002, Boko Haram has caused over 10,000 deaths and the displacement of over 1.5 million people from the Northern states.

The Nigerian Army says no fewer than 200 suspected Boko Haram terrorists surrendered to troops that overran them on the Bama-Banki axis of Borno State.

“All movements using vehicles, bicycles and animals like horses, camels, and donkeys in Maiduguri will be restricted as from Wednesday 5:00pm (1700hrs) 23 September 2015”, the message also stated. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration.

Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed at least 54 people when they detonated explosive devices in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigerian police said.

“Similarly, all vehicular movements into and out of Maiduguri town will also be restricted within the period till further notice”. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration. “What the government should have done was to maximise the...

Maiduguri: At least 54 people were killed and 90 wounded in a multiple bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in Borno state yesterday evening, a police spokesman said today.

“Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing on some Indian forward posts in Krishana Ghati and Poonch sectors around 7:00 a.m. today”.

Geelani further said that the case of Kashmiri people was strong and Pakistan’s principled position could lead India to be held accountable before the comity of nations and give up its obstinate policy.

Even as the mortar matches along the worldwide border and Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir have become a new norm, the verbal volleys between India and Pakistan have kept pace with the machine-gun firing by becoming more high-pitched and suffused with rhetorical flourishes...

Pakistan Foreign Affairs and National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday that talks with India would be possible only when the issue of Kashmir is included on the agenda.

But Gul also exemplified the oscillations within the Pakistani military establishment between anti-India paranoia and the desire to stabilize relations with Delhi.