ANOTHER SWAT HONORS

Swat : Another Swat teen is nominated for children's peace prize :

Student Hira, 14, is among six students shortlisted for the international award.

Fourteen-year old Hira Akbar has become the second second student from Swat Valley of Khyber-PakhtunKhwa province - after Nobel Laureate Malala Yusafzai-

To be nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize.

Hero Hira is among six students shortlisted out of 200 across the world for the award.

''I'll continue my struggle for the rights of fellows students in the district,'' Hira told  The Express Tribune at her home in Saidu Sharif.:''The award nomination has motivated me to strive for children's rights across the province,'' she added.

Hero Hira, the speaker of the Child  Right Committee's Parliament, has been nominated for the award for children's rights in Swat.

Malala, who was shot by the Taliban militant, after campaigning for girls' right to education, had won the prestigious International Children's Prize in 2013 at the age of 16.

The International Children's Peace Prize, an initiative of the Netherlands-based KidsRights Foundation, was launched in 2005 by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev-

When he chaired the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome.

It carries a cash value of 100,000 euros {$133,000} that is invested in projects relating to the winner's cause.