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[[File:Mustafa_zaidi.jpg|thumb|Mustafa Zaidi as Deputy Commissioner Lahore]]
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| birth_name = Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi
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'''Mustafa Zaidi''' (born '''Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi'''; 10 October 1930 – 2 October 1970) was a Pakistani [[Urdu]] poet and a civil servant.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-12|title=مصطفیٰ زیدی: قتل یا خودکشی، سوال نصف صدی بعد بھی باقی|url=https://www.independenturdu.com/node/49856|access-date=2021-08-30|website=Independent Urdu|language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Salman|first=Peerzada|date=2020-10-12|title=This week 50 years ago: The Mustafa Zaidi case and NATAK|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1584563|access-date=2021-08-30|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
In 1954, he passed the competitive examination and was sent to [[England]] for training before being given the posts of deputy commissioner and deputy secretary.<ref name="Dawn 2008">{{cite web|title=Mustafa Zaidi: murder or suicide?|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/971951/mustafa-zaidi-murder-or-suicide|website=[[DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN]]|accessdate=13 October 2015|date=14 October 2008}}</ref>

He married Vera Zaidi, a [[Germans|German]], with whom he had a son and a daughter.<ref name="Ali 2014">{{cite web | last=Ali | first=Kamran Asdar | title=COLUMN: A moment in Karachi’s history: a poet’s death remembered | website=DAWN.COM | date=2014-12-01 |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1148084 | access-date=2018-02-14}}</ref>

In June 1970, he was dismissed from civil service along with 38 other CSP officers by dictatorial regime of President General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan. <ref>{{Cite news|date=1970-06-07|title=PAKISTAN OUSTS 191 AFTER TRIALS|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/07/archives/pakistan-ousts-191-after-trials-69-others-are-retired-on-corruption.html|access-date=2021-08-31|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He died on 12 October 1970, two days after his 40th birthday, in [[Karachi]] under mysterious circumstances.<ref name="Ahmar1999">{{cite book|author=Yunus Ahmar|title=Modern Urdu Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPtCu5zdg-0C&pg=PA101|accessdate=15 February 2018|year=1999|publisher=Adam Publishers and Distributors|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7435-162-3|page=101}}</ref><ref name="Parekh 2015">{{cite web | last=Parekh | first=Rauf | title=Creativity and mental disorder: Urdu poets and writers who committed suicide | website=DAWN.COM | date=2015-04-27 | url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1178438 | access-date=2018-02-14}}</ref>

== Literary works ==
He also wrote under his pen-name Tegh Allahabadi. His initial poetry was romantic in nature. At the age of 17, published his first collection of poetry ''Zanjeeren'' in 1949, followed by, ''Zangeerein'' (1949), ''Roshni'' (1950), ''Shehr-e-Azar'' (City of Idol Worshippers; 1958), ''Mauj Meri Sadaf Sadaf'' (1960), ''Gareban'' (1964), ''Qaba-e-Saaz'' (1967) and ''Koh-e-Nida'' (1971) (published posthumously). His complete work was published as ''Kulliyaat-i-Mustafa Zaidi'' posthumously.<ref name="Dawn 2008" />

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|author=Laurel Steele|title=Relocating the Postcolonial Self: Place, Metaphor, Memory and the Urdu Poetry of Mustafa Zaidi (1930-1970)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo6gSQAACAAJ|year=2005|publisher=University of Chicago, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations|type=PhD|location=Chicago|oclc=60817790}}
* {{cite book|author=Zafarullah Khan |title=Mustafa Zaidi: Shakhsiyat aur Shairi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MrljAAAAMAAJ|language=ur|year=1984|publisher=Majlis-i Fikr o Adab|oclc=15697137}}

==See also==
* [[List of unsolved deaths]]
* [[List of Urdu Poets]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{YouTube|8_Oz4zwK11A|Abida Parveen sings Mustafa Zaidi}} – Andhi Chali
* {{YouTube|l0mOTM97qpY|Abida Parveen sings Mustafa Zaidi}} – Dard e dil bhi
* {{YouTube|qERdRrQ5xw4|Asad Amanat Ali sings Mustafa Zaidi}} – Kisi Aur Gham mein
* {{Gbooks-author|Mustafa Zaidi}}

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