Amina Masood Janjua
Amina Masood Janjua, (): born 28 April 1964, is a Pakistani human rights activist and artist. She is known for highlighting enforced disappearances in Pakistan and for campaigning for the release of her husband, Masood Ahmed Janjua, who disappeared on 30 July 2005. She is the chairperson of the rights group Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR). She provides legal support to prisoners in foreign countries, arranging financial support for 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 contributes articles in Urdu and English dailies of the country. Early life Janjua was born to Shahida and Islam Akhtar Zubairi in Mardan, a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Education She started her early education at Presentation Convent High School Risalpur (a town and air force base near Mardan) where she studied until tenth grade. After passing her matriculation, she joined Nisar Shaheed College in Risalpur. After two years of 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