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He was born in India , and was known as Tegh Allahabadi and later migrated to Pakistan , where he came to be known as "Mustafa Zaidi". He had a German wife. Mustafa Zaidi was employed with the Pakistan Civil Services and was dismissed later. In October, 1970, he was found dead in Karachi along with an unconscious woman named Shehnaz Gul, with whom he was believed to have an affair. It is widely believed that both may have attempted suicide by ingesting poison. His death and the reasons thereof have remained a mystery. Zaidi's famous contemporary was Nasir Kazmi , also a poet who was born in India but spent his poetic life in Lahore , Pakistan. One of his popular couplets (below in Urdu,followed by translation) is : ''Inhi paththaron pe chal ke agar aa sako to aao'' ''Mere ghar ke raaste mein koi kehkashaan nahi hai'' ''Come, if you can walk on the stones-ridden path to my house'' ''For there is no galaxy on the way which leads to my house'' |
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