A Pakistani woman looks at shoes of victims of suicide bombings Thursday to identify her relative at a local hospital in Wah, a garrison city about 20 miles west of the capital Islamabad, Pakistan. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates of Pakistan's main weapons complex Thursday, killing at least 64 people, officials said.

Islamabad, Pakistan ? Two suicide bombers killed at least 64 people during a shift change at the Pakistani army’s main weapons complex Thursday, a sign of the worsening security in the troubled country as parties in the ruling coalition continued to squabble over priorities after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.

Analysts said the ruling coalition is neglecting the country’s terrorism crisis by focusing so much on who will succeed Musharraf, who quit Monday, and how to restore 41 judges he fired.

“The government is not giving attention to this at all,” said defense analyst Talad Masood, a retired general who ran the weapons factory for eight years. “It’s so involved in this quagmire on the judges, it’s not paying attention to the real challenges the country is facing. And terrorism is the most important challenge facing this nation.”

The U.S. had considered Musharraf a key ally in the war on terror, and President George W. Bush called Musharraf to thank him for his help in the fight against al-Qaida, the White House said Thursday.

Analysts have suggested militants may be taking advantage of disarray in the ruling coalition, which has yet to articulate a clear policy on terrorism and appears to be divided over whether to fight militants or negotiate with them. That coalition is in danger of fracturing today, as one of the key parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, may pull out if the judges fired by Musharraf are not restored.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban, the Pakistani umbrella group for pro-Taliban militants, claimed responsibility for the twin blasts. They were apparently timed for a change in shift at 2:40 p.m. Thursday at the armament factory complex in the garrison town of Wah, 20 miles west of Islamabad.

The suicide bombers were able to get through the front gate of the cantonment area, home to 300,000 people, including 25,000 workers at the 16 weapons factories inside. One blew himself up near the second gate, and the other detonated his explosives in a market area, said Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the Pakistani army’s spokesman.

The bombings are part of a continuing campaign by Taliban-led militants against the Pakistani army, which is blamed by militants for waging a war and carrying out a U.S. agenda in the militant strongholds in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.

Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s main spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, said Pashtun tribesmen were merely taking revenge for people killed by the army in the tribal areas.

But many analysts said the government must fight terrorism for Pakistan’s survival, not just because of the U.S.

Masood said militants are trying to pressure the government to pull the army from the tribal areas.

“They’re trying to dictate their terms to the government, enforce their will on the government, by saying, ‘You stop these operations,'” Masood said. “If the government gives in, it’s a disaster.”