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    A Death in Karachi

    Dec 01, 2021 2 minutes

    and are journalists based in Pakistan. Imtiaz is the author of the novel , and has published articles in Literary Hub, and . Masood has written for NPR, HuffPost India, and Samaa and was a finalist for the 2020 Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize. They are collaborating on that examines the role of women in 1970s Pakistan. In this excerpt, we revisit the mysterious, unsolved death of the renowned Urdu poet and civil servant Mustafa Zaidi, whose body was found alongside an unconscious Shahnaz Gul—a socialite who was the subject of several of Zaidi’s verses.

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