It is her first public trip outside Karachi since nearly 140 people were killed in an assassination attempt.
The attack came within hours of her arrival in Pakistan last week after eight years of self-imposed exile.
At her home village, Ms Bhutto is to pray at the tomb of her executed father, former PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
She was greeted by crowds of supporters as she arrived at the heavily-guarded airport in Sukkur, near her home village of Garhi Khuda Baksh.
Her convoy to Karachi airport had a strong police escort and side roads along her route were sealed off.
Seat of power
Dozens of activists from her Pakistan People's Party, armed with AK-47s, are guarding her father's tomb.
She will want to hold some kind of public rally, but after her homecoming parade was torn apart by bombs on 18 October it is not certain she will be able to, says our correspondent.
Ms Bhutto has vowed to stay in Pakistan despite the attack and campaign in the parliamentary election scheduled to be held by January.
"People are just being butchered and it has to stop, somebody has to find a solution and my solution is let's restore democracy," she told a news conference before leaving Karachi.
"Let's give the people education, let's give the people empowerment, let's give the people employment."
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf granted Ms Bhutto an amnesty from corruption charges that allowed her to return to Pakistan.
She has been negotiating with Gen Musharraf over a possible power-sharing deal.
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