Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Valiant Daughter Fights to Locate Father’s Whereabouts

Braving threats and all odds young Bilquees Manzoor’s struggle to locate whereabouts of her father who went missing in custody of troops five years ago has earned her the sobriquet of ‘brave daughter of Kashmir’.

In her eagerness to know why her father Manzoor Ahmad Dar, a chemist was picked up and what happened to him, she has shed countless tears, spend many sleepless night and traveled thousands of miles. But to no avail. Aspiring to be a journalist, she wants to highlight human rights violations in Kashmir and vows to get the accused troops punished.

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