Ramshackle buildings in the narrow lanes of the downtowns, moth-eaten inestimable books, treasured yet tattered manuscripts stacked in rickety almirahs,
Fifty years ago a famous poet Mustafa Zaidi receives his lover and muse Shahnaz Gul in his apartment in Karachi. The next day he is found dead; she is unconscious. Gul is charged with murder and her trial becomes a main distraction from an impending war. Tooba Masood and Saba Imtiaz tried to piece together a social history of seventies Pakistan in what is now the country's first true crime podcast.
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The front page of the Hurriyet newspaper dated Nov. 9, 1970, with photos of Mustafa Zaidi and Shahnaz Gul, along with poetic verses in Urdu by Zaidi, whose…