Violent protests grow across Pakistan

The assassination of Pakistani political leader Benazir Bhutto has led to widespread civil unrest in the country.

As news of her death spread, supporters at the hospital in Rawalpindi smashed glass doors and stoned cars. Many chanted slogans against Mr Musharraf, accusing him of complicity in her killing.

Angry supporters also took to the streets in the north-western city of Peshawar as well other areas, chanting slogans against Mr Musharraf.

In Rawalpindi, the site of the attack, Ms Bhutto’s supporters burned election posters from the ruling party and attacked police, who fled.

In Bhutto's home town of Karachi, shop owners quickly closed their businesses as supporters from Bhutto’s party burned tires on the roads.

Ms Bhutto was killed just a few miles from the scene of her father’s violent death 28 years earlier.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister and the founder of the party that his daughter would later lead, was executed by hanging in 1979 in Rawalpindi on charges of conspiracy to murder that supporters said were politically motivated by the then-military regime.

His killing led to violent protests across the country.