Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for her groundbreaking work on the phenomenon of enforced disappearances in Kashmir, Srinagar-based human rights defender, Parveena Ahanger, is finding herself pushed to the wall after the National Investigations Agency quizzed her on 28 October, Wednesday, in the terror funding case.
Popularly known as the ‘Iron Lady of Kashmir’, Ahanger, who founded the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), is, however, determined to carry on the fight for justice for the victims of enforced disappearances and other excesses committed against ordinary people in Kashmir.
She spoke with The Quint at her red-bricked, double-storied residence in Gangbugh on the city outskirts where she lives with her husband, two sons and a daughter.