Jammu and Kashmir activist Khurram Parvez has featured in TIME’s list of 100 most influential people of 2022 which was released by the magazine on Monday, 23 May.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy are other prominent names from India to feature on the list.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin also feature on the list.
Justice Umar Ata Bandial, the current Chief Justice of Pakistan, also features on the list.
Adani has been named under the Titans category along with of Apple CEO Tim Cook and American host Oprah Winfrey. TIME magazine stated that India is “undergoing an unprecedented concentration of economic and political power that reinforce one another and called Adani “the poster boy” of the first.
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A champion of women’s rights, Nundy has advocated for the reform of antirape laws and fought cases relating to sexual harassment in the workplace.
“Karuna also takes great pains to explain legal issues in a way that engages the media and public. She can discuss the law simply and deftly. By doing so she creates an accessible discourse about rights in a time when those rights are at risk,” TIME magazine stated.
For Khurram Parvez, TIME magazine mentioned that the chairperson of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances was arrested in November 2021. “He had to be silenced, for his was a voice that resounded around the globe for his fierce fight against human rights violations and injustices in the Kashmir region…,” the magazine stated.
“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.”
Check out the full list of TIME 100 most influential people 2022 here.