Fatima Bhutto, niece of slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto and tipped as a future leader, says she wants to make her own political mark and not be a "political inheritor," media reported yesterday.
Fatima's striking looks, strong will and charm have led to comparisons with her famous aunt and suggestions by political observers that she could be an eventual political successor despite deep rifts within the Bhutto family.
"I am also a political Bhutto -- and I also know how the name restricts me," Fatima, a poet and author, told a literary festival in the northern Indian city of Jaipur.
"I don't want to be a political inheritor and would like to make my own mark. Politics in Pakistan should promote the new generation beyond the lineage system," she said, according to India's Mail yesterday.