Tens of thousands of people have attended the funeral of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.
Tens of thousands of people have attended the funeral of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.
Grief-stricken mourners converged on the family mausoleum where she was buried next to her father near their home village in Sindh province.
Grief-stricken mourners converged on the family mausoleum where she was buried next to her father near their home village in Sindh Province.
The coffin, draped in the flag of Ms Bhutto's party, was driven in a white ambulance through dense crowds.
The coffin, draped in the flag of Ms Bhutto's party, was driven in a white ambulance through dense crowds.
Pakistani security forces are on high alert, with 19 people killed in violence across the country.
Pakistani security forces are on high alert, with at least 19 people killed in violence across the country.
President Pervez Musharraf has appealed for calm, following Ms Bhutto's death at an election rally on Thursday, where a gunman opened fire on the former Pakistani prime minister and then blew himself up.
President Pervez Musharraf appealed for calm after the former Pakistani prime minister was shot at an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday by a gunman who then blew himself up.
The plain wooden coffin was taken from Ms Bhutto's family home to the burial site 7km (four miles) away at the village of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.
Outside the three-domed mausoleum, crowds chanted slogans blaming President Pervez Musharraf for Ms Bhutto's death.
Amid weeping and beating of heads and chests, mourners jostled to see the coffin, which was accompanied by Ms Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari and her three children.
The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones, who is in the district of Larkana, says the mood among local people is one of anger, with activists from Ms Bhutto's party unsure who killed their leader.
Outside the triple-domed mausoleum, crowds chanted slogans blaming Gen Musharraf for Ms Bhutto's death.
The government said plans for parliamentary elections on 8 January remained unchanged.
The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones, who is in the district of Larkana, says the mood among local people is one of anger and confusion.
Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro said the government would consult other political parties on the issue.
Rioting and unrest has been reported across the country:
Ms Bhutto's political rival Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister, announced that his party would boycott the vote in response to the attack.
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Correspondents say that credible elections will be very difficult to hold with the leader of the largest opposition party dead and Mr Sharif refusing to take part.
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least one passenger train was set ablaze in Sindh Province and a number of railway stations were reportedly burnt as security forces in the province were ordered to shoot rioters on sight
Supporters' anger
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people died in Karachi as government offices, police stations and vehicles were torched by rioters and police opened fire on protesters in Hyderabad
Security officials say 19 people have been killed in violence as angry supporters of Ms Bhutto have taken to the streets:
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office of a pro-government party was ransacked and set ablaze in Peshawar
Benazir Bhutto had been addressing rallies in many parts of Pakistan
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roadside bomb in the volatile north-western district of Swat killed a candidate from the ruling PML-Q party and at least three others, police said
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the city of Multan in Punjab province, a mob ransacked seven banks and torched a petrol station
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Peshawar, the office of a pro-government party was ransacked and set ablaze
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policeman was shot dead and three others wounded in a shootout in an eastern part of Karachi. Several other people died as government offices, police stations and vehicles were torched by rioters
Musharraf under pressure
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opened fire on protesters in Sindh's Hyderabad city, after banks, vehicles and businesses were set on fire.
Plans for parliamentary elections on 8 January, for which Ms Bhutto had been campaigning when she was killed, remain unchanged, the government says.
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the city of Multan in Punjab province, a mob ransacked seven banks and torched a petrol station.
However, caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro has said the government will consult other political parties on the issue.
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least one passenger train was set ablaze in Sindh province and a number of railway stations were reportedly burnt.
Ms Bhutto's political rival Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister, has announced his party will boycott the vote in response to the assassination.
Security forces in Sindh have been ordered to shoot rioters on sight.
"The holding of fair and free elections is not possible in the presence of Pervez Musharraf," he said.
Correspondents say credible elections will be very difficult to hold with the leader of the largest opposition party dead and Mr Sharif refusing to take part.
Another opposition politician, the former cricketer Imran Khan, has joined Mr Sharif's call for Gen Musharraf's resignation, blaming the president for failing to provide adequate security for Ms Bhutto.
"Why was [she] not provided with security, a similar kind of security to [that provided for] Gen Musharraf?" he asked at a news conference Â
Final speech
Final speech
Ms Bhutto, 54, was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, standing in the open sunroof of a car, when a gunman shot her in the neck and chest.
Ms Bhutto, 54, was leaving the election rally in Rawalpindi, standing in the open sunroof of a car, when the gunman shot her in the neck and chest.
She was taken to hospital in the northern city, where she was declared dead.
Seconds later, the attacker blew himself up, killing at least 20 other people.
Ms Bhutto was twice prime minister of Pakistan, from 1988 to 1990, and from 1993 to 1996. She was sacked on both occasions after being charged with corruption.
Ms Bhutto was twice prime minister of Pakistan, from 1988 to 1990, and from 1993 to 1996. She was sacked on both occasions after being charged with corruption.
She became the first democratically elected female prime minister in an Islamic country after Gen Zia ul-Haq, the man who overthrew her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, died in an explosion on board his aircraft in 1988.
She returned from eight years of self-imposed exile in October, following an amnesty agreed with President Musharraf.
Ms Bhutto returned from eight years of self-imposed exile in October, following talks with President Musharraf, which led to an amnesty for Ms Bhutto and a number of others charged with corruption.
Shortly after her return, she survived a double bomb attack on her convoy in Karachi which killed more than 130 people.
Shortly after her return, she survived bomb attacks on her convoy in the southern city of Karachi that killed more than 130 people. She accused rogue elements of the intelligence services of involvement in the attack.
She accused rogue elements of the intelligence services of involvement in the attack.
Militants blamed
The al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has claimed responsibility for her assassination, according to the Asia Times newspaper.
The Asia Times reported that one of their correspondents had been telephoned by the al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who said the network was behind the attack.
Gen Musharraf has blamed Islamists for the attack.
But the Pakistani Interior Ministry said it was not aware of any specific claim of responsibility.
President Musharraf has blamed Islamic extremists for the attack, a view questioned by opposition politician and former cricketer Imran Khan.
BENAZIR BHUTTO Father led Pakistan before being executed in 1979Spent five years in prisonServed as PM from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996Sacked twice by president on corruption chargesFormed alliance with rival ex-PM Nawaz Sharif in 2006Ended self-imposed exile by returning to Pakistan in OctoberEducated at Harvard and Oxford Obituary: Benazir BhuttoLife in pictures "It's all very easy for the government to blame everything on al-Qaeda and the terrorists, yet there could be other stakeholders.
"The people who've been in power for five years surely were threatened by Benazir, how do we know they're not responsible?"
The authorities say they had warned Ms Bhutto of threats against her, but her supporters say the government did not do enough to protect her.
