Recently the Time Magazine announced the TIME100: The Most Influential People of 2021. However, it was quite a bit of a shock for the people of Afghanistan who have suffered and continue to suffer under the Taliban brutality to see its co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar a terrorist that has terrorized the people of Afghanistan in the last three decades mentioned under it. Why and how would a prestigious magazine like Time glorify a terrorist, -needless to say, who has had a significant role in the forced disappearance and torturing of so many Afghan journalists,- and call it one of the 100 influential people of 2021?

In an article by Time itself on September 15, 2021, it is stated that, the list "features extraordinary leaders from around the world working to build a better future, from entertainers striving to make Hollywood more inclusive to activists fighting for sustainability and human rights." Where it also certainly includes no extraordinary but an extremist cult leader who is on the UN sanction list, who must be held responsible for its crimes against humanity and mass human rights abuse in Afghanistan. The selection is tone-deaf in light of the atrocities that have happened and are happening in Afghanistan.

Given the selection criteria stated by Richard Strengel that Time focuses more on the power of change through innovation, science, and humanitarianism rather than dictatorship and hard power; I suggest and therefore request the Time Magazine and its editors to stick by the Time values and take Mullah Baradar off a list that mentions many important humanitarians, women, scientists and "actually influential" people. Do not make terrorists, who have turned life for children, women, and journalists in Afghanistan into hell, influential. The only influences they can exert are war and terror.