Amina Masood Janjua
| Amina Masood Janjua آمنہ مسعود جنجوعہ |
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| Birth name | Amina Akhtar |
| Born | April 28, 1964 |
| Origin | Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| Occupation(s) | Human Rights Activist |
| Website | http://www.dhrpk.org |
Amina Masood Janjua, (Urdu: آمنہ مسعود جنجوعہ): born 28 April 1964, originally a painter and a poet, is known for her struggle against enforced disappearance in Pakistan. She is the chairperson of rights group Defence of Human Rights Pakistan. Her career in activism started when her husband Masood Ahmed Janjua was disappeared on 30 July 2005. Apart from enforced disappearance her work include providing legal support to prisoners in foreign countries, arranging financial support to the families of victims of enforced disappearance and eradication of torture from jails and detention centers. She appears regularly on local and foreign media as the spokesperson of missing persons and occasionally contribute articles in Urdu and English dailies of the country.
She was born in an educated family from the marriage of Shahida and Islam Akhtar Zubari in Mardan, a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Her paternal grandfather Inam Ahmed Khan was a landlord and also served as Cane Manager in a local sugar mill. Her father, living a retired life now, is an engineer by profession. Her mother is an amateur writer whose writing involves fiction and general articles and is being published regularly in local periodicals.
She started her early education at Presentation Convent High School Risalpur (a town and air force base near Mardan) where she studied till tenth grade. After passing her matriculation she joined Nisar Shaheed College which is also in Risalpur. After two years study in Nisar Shaheed College she joined F.G College for Women Rawalpindi from where she passed her BA exams with English Literature, Persian and Fine Arts as majors. As described by her in an interview she used to draw and paint on everything she could lay her hand on since very early childhood. This natural talent of painting led her to Punjab University from where she got master's degree in Fine Arts securing second position and was awarded Silver Medal. After masters Pakistan’s renowned painters Mansoor Rahi and Hajira Mansoor mentored and played a vital role in polishing her painting skills.
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