Jugnu Mohsin

Who is Jugnu Mohsin?

Jugnu Mohsin is a Pakistani publisher and editor of the Lahore-based The Friday Times, Pakistan's first English-language independent newsweekly. She also writes a monthly satire column for the paper. 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.