At a time when India-Pakistan relations are highly strained, an 11-year-old Pakistani girl has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's help for maintaining “peace” between the countries.

The Pakistani girl, Aqeedat Naveed wrote a letter to Modi recently, urging him to improve the bilateral ties.

“Both countries need good relations. Let’s make a peace bridge between India and Pakistan,” she wrote.

Aqeedat, a class five student at Cathedral School, unlike most girls of her age dreams everyone would "buy books instead of bullets”.

“Let’s decide that we will not buy bullets, will buy books. We will not buy guns, will buy medicine for the poor people,” she said.

Congratulating Modi on his party’s unprecedented win in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Aqeedat said, “Once my father told me that winning of hearts is a marvelous job. But I must tell you if you want to win more Indian and Pakistani hearts, you should take steps towards friendship and peace.”

Aqeedat had previously written letters to other Indian leaders, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar among others on various issues.

The terrorist attack in Uri on September 18, 2016 was a final blow to the already strained relationship between the countries.

Nearly 10 days after the Uri attack, India conducted surgical strikes on September 29 in the de facto border of Kashmir, the Line of Control (LoC), in the wake of the increase in infiltration bids. Indian Army’s elite forces entered the LoC barricades with snipers and paratroopers. The commandos were airdropped at the LoC to cross over to the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The strikes were carried out in Pakistan’s Bhimber, Hotspring, Kel and Lipa sectors.

However, Pakistan dismissed the surgical strike, terming it an ‘illusion’.

In another instance, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly aggravated the tension between the neighbouring countries as he called Hizbul commander Burhan Wani a “young leader”.

However, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj gave a strong reply, saying, “Neighbours should forget about Kashmir because it’s an integral part of India and will remain so”.