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Thursday, 27 December 2007, 21:17 GMT
In pictures: Fury at Bhutto killing
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Following news that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated in a suicide attack, protesters took to the streets and set fire to vehicles in Karachi.
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President Pervez Musharraf condemned the killing and urged people to remain calm, but angry protests gripped cities across the country, including Lahore.
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Some supporters of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party torched banners promoting the party allied to President Musharraf, the PML-Q.
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Other protesters in Rawalpindi set light to tyres.
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Supporters of Benazir Bhutto had gathered outside the hospital in Rawalpindi, where doctors had tried in vain to save the former premier, to express their grief.
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Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister and a political rival, announced his Muslim League party would boycott coming elections - and joined Ms Bhutto's supporters at the hospital.
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The mourners carried Ms Bhutto's coffin from the hospital when her body was released.
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They then followed the ambulance, in which the coffin was being carried, through the streets of Rawalpindi.
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