SRINAGAR — Kashmiri Human Rights Activist Khurram Parvez who is currently imprisoned by authorities in jail has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of “100 Most Influential People of 2022.
Besides Khurram Parvez two others from India who made it to the list are Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy and industrialist Gautam Adani. Other public figures who made it to the list include Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Khurram’s brief sketch has been written by journalist, Rana Ayyub.
“Parvez, who serves as chairperson of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, was arrested in November of last year. It was not the first time that Parvez was forcibly silenced. The attacks against him speak volumes of the truth he represents at a time when the world’s largest democracy is being called out for its persecution of the more than 200 million Indian Muslims,” the Magazine quoted Rana’s article.
“The soft-spoken Khurram is almost a modern-day David who gave a voice to families that lost their children to enforced disappearances, allegedly by the Indian state. Khurram is the story and the storyteller of the insurgency and the betrayal of the people of Kashmir,” the Magazine added.
Khurram was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) from his residence in Srinagar in November last year and is presently lodged in jail in a terror funding case.