May 20, 2007	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 03, 1428

ISLAMABAD, May 19: A woman, who is fighting the case of missing persons including her husband, has urged the acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas to provide her security against harassment by some elements.

In a letter to the ACJ; Amina Masood Janjua complained that a number of people using cellphones had been threatening and harassing her for the last six to seven days. She said she had received obnoxious calls from a variety of cellular numbers.

“They are calling from different numbers, one of them identifying himself as ‘Shani’ uses foul language and sends threatening SMS,” the letter a copy of which is available with Dawn said.

The Supreme Court, which is seized with the case of missing persons, is likely to resume hearing from Friday. Ms Janjua had invited the attention of the apex court over a number of missing people including her husband whose unexplained disappearance for the last two years is believed to have been caused by their suspected links with Al Qaeda or other jihadi outfits.

In her letter, she alleged that intelligence agencies might be behind this recent move to mentally torture and disrupt her campaign for the release of disappeared persons who, she believed, had been abducted by agencies.

She said the obnoxious callers even threatened to block her cellphone number, which they twice did in the past, so that the missing persons’ families find it difficult in getting in touch with her. “I feel that I am being watched and my calls being monitored continuously,” she feared.

She said director general National Crisis Management Cell Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema and chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Shahzada Alam Malik had been informed but so far she had received no response from them.

“I feel dejected and heartbroken to realise that my own government and my own agencies which are supposed to provide security to me and my family are responsible for what is happening,” she said.

“Since my husband, Masood Janjua is picked up by the agencies, no one is here to look after my family,” she deplored.

There is no doubt, she said, the families of missing persons are most vulnerable as they have to face financial, psychological and emotional problems.