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A Poem Longing For Love

11 Mar

“Masood”

All I need is your hand
to hold on….
All I need is your soul
to depend on….
All I need is your shoulder
to cry on…..
All I need is your bossom
to rest on….
All I need is your face
to cling on….
All I need is you love
to live on…..
All I need is your smile
to die on….

-Amina Janjua, wife of Masood Ahmed Janjua, January 2006

 

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Posted by aseerun on March 11, 2012 in Collateral Damage

 

Tags: Amina Masood Janjua, colored pencil, Enforced Disappearance, flower, pen, Poem, Poetry, sketch

Disappeared In Pakistan: Gone but Not Forgotten

08 Mar

 

 

ISLAMABAD — They huddled in small groups under a bright orange tarpaulin, seated on rugs and prayer mats laid out end to end to protect against the chilly February ground. Some of the protesters were resting, some sharing a meal of lentil dahl and naan bread, others solemnly clutching homemade posters bearing the faces and neatly scripted names of their missing loved ones.

Infants and elderly, housewives and working professionals, entire families representing Pakistan’s so-called “missing persons” have set up a protest camp near the parliament here to demand answers on the whereabouts of their relatives. “People are pinning their hopes here,” said the group’s leader, Amina Masood Janjua. “We have no guns, no nuclear weapons. Our words and our grief is the power.”

The two countries are allies but their relationship has been plagued by mistrust over the last 50 years.

Her husband, businessman Masood Ahmed Janjua, now 51, disappeared six years ago. She said he was last seen in Rawalpindi, a city just outside the capital, on his way to Peshawar.

Janjua is one of hundreds if not thousands who have been “disappeared” — seized in extrajudicial detentions allegedly conducted by Pakistan’s powerful spy agency, according to human rights officials. The missing are presumed by the agency to be terrorists and Islamist militants.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate is thought to be behind the seizures of the putative terrorists, because when those detained are allowed to go home, they say they were with the intelligence agencies, said Amina Janjua.

 

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Posted by aseerun on March 8, 2012 in News Items

 

Tags: Amina Masood Janjua, Defence of Human Rights, Enforced Disappearance, ISI, Pakistan

Amina Masood Janjua speaks of her plight

19 Jul

As the fight for release of my illegally detained husband grew tougher and tougher so was my pocket becoming emptier and emptier. Maybe it was created deliberately by the government to squeeze me financially. It was in the the last 5 years 2 months 8 days, to be exact, that my life had taken 180 degree turn on the 30th of July 2005, when my husband disappeared. These days were based on tireless struggles non-stop running from pillar to post, sleepless nights and heart piercing grief.

Masood my loving husband is a famous educator and businessman in Rawalpindi and Islamabad .He was honest, hardworking, enthusiastic, charismatic,competent and extremely loving and caring .We got married in 1989 and life was heavenly happy for us .We were blessed with two boys and an adorable daughter. For his children, Masood was extraordinary friendly ,loving and caring . He would play wrestling with the boys and dolls with the little doll of ours. Life unfolded beautifully before us and we realized that we were more and more in love with each other.

There was hardly any spare time with Masood as he was running three institutions and a social welfare hospital for the poor. The rest of the time was dedicated to his aging parents and family he loved dearly. Masood made it a point to spend some time, every now and then, relaxing in hilly scenic areas where we enjoyed barbeques, fishing and camping at our leisure.

I remember the time of Masood’s disappearance with a shudder, recalling how I was helplessly lying on bed for 3 months crying in a deep shock and depression. All the while my innocent children Muhammad (14), Ali (12) and Aishah (8), were sunk in a sea of shock, lost in a world of their own, their eyes desperately searching for Abbu (father) and Ammi (mother) both. Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on July 19, 2011 in Collateral Damage

 

Tags: Amina Masood Janjua, extrajudicial detention, ISI, Masood Janjua, Pakistan

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