WRAP Benazir Bhutto leaves Karachi, arrives at father's tomb ADDS AP pix, Bhutto sot

(27 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST
Karachi
1. Various exteriors of airport
2. Wide of security inside airport
3. Mid shot of flight information board
4. Motorcade carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
5. Bhutto supporters surrounding car
6. Various of Pakistan People's Party (Bhutto's party) security volunteers and police escorting Bhutto into airport
7. Various of security outside airport
Karachi
8. Bhutto walking through airport
Karachi
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister:
"It is with a mixture of emotions that I go back, because so much has happened but I'm looking forward to once again meeting with people of my constituency. Although all of Pakistan is my constituency, but the story starts from Larkana."
Sukkur
10. Various of security surrounding Bhutto's airplane
11. Bhutto getting off airplane being greeted by supporters
12. Bhutto waving at supporters as her convoy travels through crowd cheering and waving Pakistan People's Party (Bhutto's party) flags
Garhi Khuda Baksh
13. Bhutto arriving at Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's shrine - supporters waving and cheering
14. Various of Bhutto inside shrine, praying and laying flower petals at her father's grave
15. Bhutto reading Quran
16. Bhutto waving to crowd from shrine balcony
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister:
"I feel overwhelmed by the emotion. There were days, when my father's death anniversary would come. When his birthday would come and I could not be, I couldn't come here, I couldn't pray for him. So it is so moving for me to finally be here and to be able to pray at his grave and a grave of my young brothers who lost their lives in the prime of their youth. And also to see this wonderful mausoleum, that has been built. My father used to say that the people of Pakistan are my political heirs, they are my sons and daughters."
18. Bhutto waving to crowd from car as her convoy drives away
STORYLINE
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited her ancestral village on Saturday to pay respects at her father's tomb, her first trip outside Karachi since an assassination attempt against her killed 143 people nine days ago.
"I'm looking forward to once again meeting with people of my constituency," Bhutto told AP Television before departing Karachi.
"Although all of Pakistan is my constituency, but the story starts from Larkana," she added.
Bhutto's flight from Karachi landed at the heavily guarded airport in Sukkur where throngs of supporters waited outside, waving the red, green and black flags of her Pakistan People's Party.
As she got off the plane, she was greeted by a dozen local party leaders who gave her a traditional black shawl and a copy of the Quran.
Bhutto then travelled to Garhi Khuda Baksh, near Larkana city, where she paid her respects at the tomb of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first popularly elected leader, who was hanged three decades ago.
Hundreds of supporters ran toward Bhutto's convoy as she arrived in the village after a hundred kilometre (60 mile) road trip from the airport at Sukkur.
The fervent support continued as she arrived at the shrine of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to pray and laid petals at her father's grave.
Afterwards she said she felt overwhelmed with emotion.
"There were days, when my father's death anniversary would come", she said; "When his birthday would come and I could not be, I couldn't come here, I couldn't pray for him. So it is so moving for me to finally be here and to be able to pray at his grave and a grave of my young brothers who lost their lives in the prime of their youth."

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