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In choosing the target, the Taliban singled out a symbolically important industry, and one that Pakistanis thought was virtually impregnable, General Masood said.

Suicide Attack at Pakistan Arms Plant Kills 60 People
By JANE PERLEZ

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 60 people were killed Thursday when two suicide bombers attacked Pakistan’s largest weapons manufacturing complex just north of the capital, the deadliest attack by the Taliban in their escalating campaign against the government.

The attack came just days after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, leaving two rival political parties in the governing coalition haggling over the question of succession and adding a new layer of turbulence to an unstable, nuclear-armed nation. Neither party has been anxious to take on the campaign against the militants, which is seen here as an American conflict foisted on the country.