The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Pakistan

Chants of Koranic verses and somber hymns resonated throughout Benazir Bhutto's ancestral village in southern Pakistan on Thursday as thousands gathered at the assassinated former prime minister's tomb to mark a 40th and final day of mourning.

Conspiracy theories still swirl over who was behind the gun and suicide bomb attack that killed the opposition leader in the garrison town of Rawalpindi on December 27. Controversy even rages over whether Bhutto, the most charismatic Pakistani politician of the last 20 years, was killed by a bullet or by a concussive injury caused by the bomb detonated after an assassin shot at her from close range. She was buried a day later, without an autopsy, at the imposing mausoleum she had built at Garhi Khuda Baksh in Sindh province for her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first popularly elected prime minister.