Jugnu Mohsin
| Jugnu Mohsin (journalist) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Syeda Memnat Hussain 1958 |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Occupation | newspaper publisher, satirist column writer, host of TV shows |
| Organization | The Friday Times, Vanguard Books |
| Spouse(s) | Najam Sethi |
| Relatives |
Moni Mohsin (sister) Mira Sethi (daughter) Ali Sethi (son) |
| Awards | CPJ International Press Freedom Award (1999) |
Jugnu Mohsin (born as Syeda Memnat Hussain) (born 1958) is a Pakistani progressive commentator who is the co-founder and editor of The Friday Times and host's a weekly talkshow Jugnu on Geo News. Born into a wealthy Punjabi family, Mohsin studied law at University of Cambridge. Where she met and married leftist journalist Najam Sethi.
In 1999, her husband, Friday Times editor-in-chief Najam Sethi, was kidnapped by the Nawaz Sharif government for his work as a journalist and held for a month without charge, causing Mohsin to launch an international campaign for his release. That year, she and Sethi were awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2016, she hosts a television show, Jugnu on Geo News- a Pakistani TV channel. She also work in TV ad of lifebuoy.
According to Sethi, he first conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of personal frustration: while briefly imprisoned in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his arrest. The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing license under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be approved. Called into Nawaz Sharif's office to discuss the application, Jugnu Mohsin (Najam Sethi's wife) told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings". It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year delay to avoid the first issue coming out during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq. The paper's first issue appeared in May 1989.
In early 1999, Mohsin's husband, Najam Sethi, gave an interview to a team for the British Broadcasting Corporation television show Correspondent, which was planning to report on corruption in the Pakistani government. At the beginning of May 1999, he was warned by his contacts that his co-operation with the team was being interpreted by the government as an attempt to destabilise it, and that officials were planning Sethi's arrest. On 8 May 1999, he was taken from his home by government agents. According to Mohsin, at least eight armed officers broke into the house, assaulting the family's security guards; when asked to produce a warrant, one of them threatened simply to shoot Sethi on the spot. Mohsin was tied up and left locked in another room.
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