Jugnu Mohsin Sethi

Early life and education She was born as Syeda Maimanat Mohsin to a landed gentry family.

She received her early education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore and took her A-levels at the Moreton Hall School. She received her law degree from the University of Cambridge and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, London.

In 2004, Jugnu Mohsin said that President General Musharraf could be a bridge to democracy.

1999 kidnapping incident In early 1999, Sethi gave an interview to a journalist from the BBC television program, Correspondent. The program planned to expose corruption in the Pakistani government. At the beginning of May 1999, Sethi was warned that his arrest was imminent.

Mohsin publicly campaigned for his release and continued to publish the Friday Times. Amnesty International stated that Sethi's arrest was connected with his investigations into government corruption, and designated him a prisoner of conscience. The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter of protest to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, noting the organisation's dismay "that [Pakistan] continues its persecution of independent journalists".

On 1 June 1999, the Pakistan government charged Sethi with "condemnation of the creation of the State and advocacy of the abolition of its sovereignty" and "promoting enmity between different groups". Sethi was transferred to the custody of the police. However, the following day, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that the government had not provided sufficient evidence to justify Sethi's detention. Sethi was released, and the charges against him were dropped.

My Feudal Lord book controversy In June 1991, Mohsin and Sethi's publishing company, Vanguard Books, released Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord. The book recounts her marriage to the politician and Punjab landlord, Mustafa Khar. In the book, Durrani alleges that Khar mistreated and abused her. Durrani signed a contract with Mohsin, giving Mohsin foreign rights and fifty percent of foreign royalties.

On 19 May 1999, however, during Sethi's detention, Durrani said at a press conference that Sethi had stolen all of her earnings from the book. She said his actions were "an even bigger case of hypocrisy than my experience with the feudal system". Durrani sued Sethi for mental torture, and he counter-sued for defamation. An earlier dispute over the foreign rights had been settled out of court in 1992. A review of the contracts by the UK newspaper The Independent described Sethi as having acted in good faith and described him and Mohsin as "the injured party". Mohsin's sister, Moni Mohsin, satirises the country's social elites with another column for the paper, "Diary of a Social Butterfly". Mohsin is a member of the Women's Action Forum of Pakistan organization. She later became a major critic of Imran Khan's entry into politics. However, in 2018, after being elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, she supported his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. On 1 April 2022, she joined the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) prior to the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan.