Dozens of people paid tributes Thursday in front of a portrait of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Liaqat Bagh park, where she was assassinated a week ago.
Out on the streets in the military town of Rawalpindi, it was crowded with cars and motorcycles honking just like anywhere else, showing the return of law and order across most parts of the country.
Riots and violence unleashed in the several days following Bhutto's assassination threatened anarchy in the south Asian nation but law and order quickly returned after her 19-year-old son Bilawal was installed in her place as the new leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
In Islamabad, players were back on cricket court and less police were deployed after days of heavy security patrolling the streets. Even the roadblocks on the Constitution Avenue in front of the presidential house were withdrawn, leaving only three policemen at a checkpoint.
"We are working the night shift. The others are gone. They are off duty now," a policeman at the checkpoint told Xinhua.
In Karachi, the southern stronghold city of PPP, life was largely back to normal, too, but supplies of certain vegetables from interior Sindh to Karachi were affected by disrupted transport.
The crops are ripe for sale in Sanghar, Badin and Mirpur Khas districts but the means of transport have not been available to carry the crops to market in Karachi, leaving a shortage of supply there, local independent TV network Geo reported.
Source:Xinhua
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