Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest in her family’s ancestral grave on Friday to scenes of searing emotion from hundreds of thousands of mourners.
Bhutto’s body, accompanied by Asif Ali Zardari, her husband, and their three children, was flown in a military aircraft to Sindh hours after she was killed. People started crying and wailing as Bhutto’s coffin was brought to her family home in an ambulance.
It took more than two hours to crawl the five kilometres (3.2 miles) from her family home in Naudero to the private mausoleum in Ghari Khuda Baksh, a village 5km from the Bhutto home in the small town of Naudero.
She was buried next to her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the country’s first popularly elected prime minister, toppled by the military in 1977 and later hanged.
Bhutto, 54, was hoping to lead the Pakistani People’s Party to victory in the January 8 parliamentary election, having been prime minister twice before.