Bhutto, who was twice Pakistan's leader in the 1990s, said she hopes to go back to the country but gave no details, merely stating that key conditions were fair elections and a proper balance of power between the president and parliament.
Bhutto, 53, went into exile in 1998 over corruption cases pending against her and her husband. She faces arrest and possible imprisonment if she returns to Pakistan.
She was speaking at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London.
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto welcomed Friday the reinstatement of the country's top judge, saying it should help calm some of the "frustration" in the restive South Asian nation.
"I welcome the reinstatement of the chief justice of the Supreme Court," she told reporters in London, adding that "there was an expectation that he would be restored".
"I think this is a judgment that will help defuse some of the frustration, but not all the frustration in the streets of Pakistan," she added, without elaborating.
She was speaking after the Supreme Court reinstated chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and quashed misconduct charges filed against him by President Pervez Musharraf, in a major blow for the embattled military ruler.
Musharraf is battling a wave of Islamist violence, sparked by the bloody storming by government forces last week of the pro-Taliban Red Mosque in Islamabad.
The death toll from the Islamist carnage passed 200 in less than a week Friday, after another suicide attack killed four people in the tribal area of North Waziristan, where militants last Sunday tore up a shaky ceasefire pact.
Bhutto, who was twice Pakistan's leader in the 1990s, said she hopes to go back to the country but gave no details, merely stating that key conditions were fair elections and a proper balance of power between the president and parliament.
Bhutto, 53, went into exile in 1998 over corruption cases pending against her and her husband. She faces arrest and possible imprisonment if she returns to Pakistan.
She was speaking at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London.
