Mustafa Zaidi and the Politics of Silence in Pakistan on January 13, 2025The untimely death of Mustafa Zaidi, a brilliant poet and civil servant, remains one of the great mysteries of Pakistan’s literary and political history. Found lifeless in Karachi in 1970, alongside a socialite embroiled in scandal, Zaidi’s demise was ruled as a suicide—an explanation that raised more questions than it answered. More than half a […]