Kashmir's Parveena Ahanger, For Her Untiring Protests, Features In BBC's List Of 100 Most Inspiring Women

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For 25 long years, Parveena Ahangar, has been leading protests and marches with Kashmiris, who have time and again raised the issue “disappearances”.

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She is 50 and known as the “Iron lady of Kashmir” for her untiring and fearless protests against the alleged abduction of her son by the Indian Army in 1990 and thereafter forming the Association of Parents of Disappeared Parents (APDP) in 1994.

Her association, which is backed by the United Nations, has been holding sit-in protests for over two decades against alleged “forced disappearances”.

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