ISLAMABAD: Aqeedat Naveed, an eight-year-old student from Lahore, urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a letter to fight against terrorists bravely, DawnNews reported.

She wrote the letter and addressed it to the PM following the December 16, 2014 atrocity when Army Public School Peshawar was attacked by terrorists and over 140 lives were lost.

The attack touched all Pakistanis and evoked strong emotions.

She demanded that PM Sharif play his due role in making the country ‘Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s peaceful Pakistan’.

The young student in her letter wrote that Pakistanis are a brave nation and are not scared of terrorists.

Replying to young Aqeedat’s letter, PM Sharif said that he would do his best to bring peace to the country that Quaid-e-Azam envisioned.

Aqeedat’s younger brother, Moarikh Ahmed, had also sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to ensure peace in the Indo-Pak region.

In response, Ban Ki Moon assured the young Pakistani that he would make sure that peace prevails.

Both siblings said that they might be young but they would always raise their voice for making Pakistan a safer place.

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