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No expectations from Mehbooba, says APDP Chairperson

ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Chairperson Association of Parents of
Disappeared Persons (APDP), Parveena Ahanger has said Kashmiri mothers like her don’t have any expectations from puppet women chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti.
Parveena Ahanger expressed her views on being a woman while speaking
at a function held in connection with Mother’s Day at a local hotel in Srinagar, yesterday, KMS reported.
Ahanger whose son was subjected to enforced disappearance by Indian
troops in 1990’s said that she had no expectations from Mehbooba Mufti in bringing disappeared sons of thousands of Kashmiri mothers back home.
“Mufti Sayeed did not stay here. Neither will Mehbooba. She calls me
her mother. But she won’t understand our pain,” Ahanger said. “Mufti has sent her daughters to other countries and that she doesn’t know the pain of losing a child that is shared by thousands of woman in Kashmir.”
Ahanger moistened eyes of more than 50 women from different walks of
life who were participating in the function, to express their feelings of being a Woman in Kashmir. The women gathered to celebrate the resilience, achievement and individual struggles of women.
“I am no leader. I am a victim. But I will fight till my last breath.
I will fight so this new generation doesn’t go through what we went through,” said Ahanger.
Ahanger shared her ordeal of being a mother of her disappeared son Yasir and pain of many other women like Mogal Maas, Haja Apa, Jana
begum and many more.Ahanger said she had not moved beyond Lal Chowk, “But the disappearance of my son took me beyond mental, geographical and political boundaries,” Ahangar deplored.