KARACHI, Jan 12: Former federal minister for water and power Liaquat Ali Khan Jatoi, who is a central leader of the PML-Q, has blamed PPP leadership and workers for the violence that raged through the country in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Dec 27.

“If the politics of violence remained unchecked, this may lead to a civil war,” he remarked while addressing a news conference at his residence here Saturday.

Showing a little concern over his party’s act of initiating what was described as ethnically biased advertisements in its election campaign, he accused PPP activists of having indulged in looting and arson in the recent disturbances. He said his (Baloch) tribe had, at a Jirga, vowed to take revenge for the damage caused to his properties in Dadu and Hala but he restrained them.