Reviews

Open Magazine - Fault Lines in Karachi

The Week - ‘Society Girl’: Of high-profile scandals and media trials in 1970s Pakistan

The Nation - The death of Mustafa Zaidi: Poetry, scandal, and unsolved Mystery

The News - The death of a poet

Dawn - Notes on a Scandal

Dawn - Society Girl: A Tale of Sex, Lies and Scandal revisits one of Pakistan’s most intriguing cold cases

Dunya - A Scandal for the Pages

The Friday Times - A Homemaker And A Poet Fall In Love: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Features

The Times of India - The Sex Scandal Pakistan Never Forgot

India Today - History books 2024 - Past perfect

BBC Urdu - Karachi ‘high society’ ka scandal jo aik purisrar maut par khatam hua

Columns / Essays

• Claire Chambers: ‘True Crime’ in Pakistan - Dawn

• Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa: Of Sex, Lies And Perversion - The Friday Times

• Arifa Noor: A Woman Silenced - Dawn

• Mahnaz Rahman: Shahnaz aur Mustafa Zaidi Ki Kahani - Hum Sab

Interviews

Maati TV - Writing about a Karachi 70s Murder Mystery - Out of the Box

BBC Hindi - Pakistan के इतिहास की सबसे चर्चित और रहस्यमयी मौत की कहानी -विवेचना

Dawn News English - Let’s Talk About Female Authors & True Crime

Himalistan - Southasia Review of Books Podcast

Excerpts

• ‘A new book investigates poet Mustafa Zaidi’s death, still a subject of controversy in Pakistan’ - Scroll.in
• ‘The death that shook 1970s’ Pakistan’ - The Tribune

Roundups

• Harper’s Bazaar

• Business Recorder

• Indian Express

• Hindustan Times

• Live Mint Lounge

Book Events

• Revisiting the story of Mustafa Zaidi’s death and Shahnaz Gul - Dawn

• Decades old murder mystery retold - Dawn

• Society Girl revisits gripping 1970 case of Mustafa Zaidi - The News