"I definitely want to help people in Pakistan. I want to continue my mom's mission in any way I can, whether it's politics or something else -- I haven't decided yet," 17-year-old Bakhtawar said in a television interview.
According to a report in The Sunday Times, London, Bakhtawar, who goes to school in Dubai, said: "I am proud to think people see me as a role model. I'm a very confident speaker and I hope all women can do what they want.
"I was given the opportunity. I was privileged, as you know. I was born into the family that I am in, where everything I could have was my right. Everything was equal between me and my brother and there was no discrimination between the sexes."
Her 19-year-old brother Bilawal, an Oxford undergraduate, was appointed co-chairman of the PPP along with Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari, within days of Bhutto's assassination and is widely seen as a future leader of the party.
Bakhtawar told a satellite news channel: "We have been brought up to equality and everything my brother was given, I was given. In education, we went to exactly the same schools, exactly the same teachers. Education for women is as important as for men because I believe we can all have the same jobs in life."
Image: Benazir Bhutto's daughters Bakhtawar (left) and Asifa at a Pakistan People's Party meeting at the Bhutto's residence in Naudero late last year. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images