(30 Jun 2002)
Kabul Airport, Kabul 30 June 2002
1. Wide shot of plane on tarmac
2. Casket with flag draped on top being carried by honour guard
Nader Khan Tomb, Kabul 30 June 2002
3. Wide shot of bomb damaged royal tomb
4. Casket being carried
5. Wide shot of interior of tomb
6. Close up of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah sitting during service
7. Close up of damaged roof, pan down to wide of service
8. Pan from mourners to casket in grave
9. Pan of basement crypt in tomb
10. Wide shot of exterior of royal tomb
STORYLINE:
The body of Afghanistan's former queen, Homaira Shah, was returned to Kabul on Sunday and buried in the royal family's war-damaged tomb on a barren stone ridge overlooking the city where her husband once ruled.
The former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were among the crowd of dignitaries on hand to meet the Italian military plane carrying the body when it touched down in blazing afternoon sunshine at Kabul's battered international airport.
Old men in Afghan military regalia, representatives of Pashtun tribes in full traditional dress of robes and turbans, foreign diplomats and many Cabinet ministers from the current and former interim government stood by and watched quietly as the coffin, draped in and red-and-green banner, was unloaded from the plane and carried across the tarmac by eight uniformed military pallbearers, who followed a goose-stepping officer leading the procession.
Shortly afterward, the body was interred in a simple ceremony in the basement crypt of the bullet-pocket royal tomb on a hill overlooking the capital.
Only members of the royal family were allowed to be present.
The ex-queen died on Wednesday of cardiac arrest at age 86.
She had been married to her husband, the former Afghan monarch, since she was a teenager.
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