Twin suicide blasts kill 64 at Pakistan munitions factory

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main army munitions factory Thursday, killing 64 workers in the deadliest attack on a military installation in the country's history.

In the second bombing to rock the feuding coalition government since President Pervez Musharraf resigned Monday, the attackers struck a crowd of workers leaving the huge complex in Wah, near Islamabad.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the atrocity and threatened to carry out further attacks if an army offensive against militants near the Afghan border is not stopped.

It's a massive attack," local police chief Nasir Durrani told AFP. "Two men apparently blew themselves up outside the factory during a shift change.

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Up to eight dead as massive bomb targets Danish Embassy in Pakistan

A suicide car bomb outside Denmark's embassy in Pakistan killed up to eight people and wounded 27 Monday in a possible new backlash over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, state media and officials said.

The massive blast damaged the mission in central Islamabad and nearly destroyed a nearby UN agency. Dozens of cars were also wrecked by the force of the explosion, which gouged a huge crater out of the road.

There was no claim of responsibility but officials said the attack was likely linked to the row over the Prophet cartoons, which Danish newspapers first published in 2005 and then reprinted in February.

Pakistani Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the "dastardly" bombing "could be a reaction to blasphemous sketches published in Denmark" and pledged that the culprits would be caught.

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