ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The husband and children of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Islamabad early on Friday from Dubai to take the body of the slain leader to her ancestral home for burial.

According to Islamic tradition, funerals should be held as quickly as possible. Party officials said they expected the funeral would be held on Friday.

Bhutto's body was flown to her home province of Sindh shortly after the arrival of her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and their three children.

Party officials said Bhutto would be buried in her native village of Garhi Khuda Baksh, in Larkana district, in her family graveyard next to her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Her father, the country's first popularly elected prime minister, was toppled by the military in 1977 and later hanged.

"The body has been flown to Sindh along with the family and 35 relatives and supporters," a security official said.

Zardari is a businessman and served as a government minister during one of Bhutto's two terms as prime minister in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Bhutto's body was earlier taken from the hospital in Rawalpindi, where she was pronounced dead after the attack, to the airport.

Hundreds of distraught supporters bore her plain wooden coffin aloft from the hospital to an ambulance that took it to Rawalpindi's military airport.

Bhutto returned to Pakistan from an eight year exile in October and later paid an emotional visit to her native village. (Editing by Ralph Boulton)

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