Amid days of rage, Karachi struggles to find some normalcy

By mid-afternoon, in the buzzing aisles of a supermarket called Agha, Bushra Zaidi was filling her cart with ingredients for enchiladas and Waldorf salad.

In the same aisle, Sherry Rehman, a spokeswoman for Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party, was stocking up on rations to take back to Naudero, where senior party officials have huddled in Bhutto’s country house since her death.

The party’s central executive committee was to meet Wednesday evening in Naudero to discuss how to proceed on elections. It had pressed for holding the balloting next Tuesday, as scheduled, but Government officials said the elections would be postponed till February. A new date is expected to be announced Wednesday.