NEW DELHI, Jan 26: Fatima Bhutto, niece of slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, says she wants to make her own political mark and not be a ‘political inheritor,’ media reported on Saturday.

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,” Ms 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 Today.

Ms Fatima wrote several articles critical of her aunt around the time Ms

Bhutto returned to Pakistan late last year to contest coming elections.

“I don’t regret that I wrote against my aunt, but I am terribly grieved with the way she was done to death,” Ms Fatima was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

“The attack on her was an attack on Pakistan.

The Bhuttos have paid a very high price for being in politics,” she said.

Ms Fatima said if she wrote against Benazir, “it was never personal, always political.”

—AFP