国际英语新闻：Karachi remains tense after riots claim 63 lives

Local watchers believe that in order to keep its both coalition partners intact in the center as well in the Sindh and northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party is shifting the onus of MQM leader Raza Haider and other target killings ad terror attacks on the sectarian disbanded outfits.

MQM is the second largest party in Sindh with 51 seats in the House of 166 after ruling PPP with 93 seats. ANP holds only two seats. MQM appeared on the mainstream national political scene after a landslide victory in 1988 general elections.

MQM is the fourth largest political party of Pakistan ranked after the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), main opposition party the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PML-Quaid, has been keeping its vote bank as well as political maneuverability in the urban centers of Sindh province. ANP having a socialist bent of thought is ruling the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Despite ANP's insignificant size in the Sindh provincial assembly, PPP wants to keep it into the fold to look more cosmopolitan and democratic in its composition both in the center and in the south and northwest provinces. And, to keep the sentiments under control in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to keep its focus on war against terror in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, local analysts observed.

A number of significant arrests of most wanted extremist militants representing various disbanded firebrands during the past year had raised alarm regarding the presence of absconding militants fleeing the northwest tribal areas and taking refuge in Pashtun neighborhoods of Karachi, the fact MQM had been screaming for quite some time.

Analysts believe that the volcano of ethnic strife and terrorism that has been spewing hatred and death in the past two decades, has come to life once again and more violence and arson would be disturbing Karachi that effect the entire country.