INDIAN security forces arrested prominent human rights campaigner Khurram Parvez after a raid on his home in Kashmir on Monday, his family reported today.

Agents from the notorious National Investigation Agency detained him on spurious anti-terrorism charges, leading to calls for his immediate release.

Mr Parvez is chairman of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances and had been documenting atrocities committed by occupying Indian forces in Kashmir.