[3][4] A modern classic of Urdu literature by Shaukat Siddiqui, the setting for Khuda Ki Basti[5] are the 1950s slums of Karachi and Lahore in a newly independent Pakistan.
Jobless, and without any real hope of a better life, they find themselves in the clutches of unprincipled evil people who exploit them.
Their widowed mother is first pursued by a conniving man from the neighbourhood who apparently wants to marry her, but whose real intention is to get access to her pretty young daughter, Sultana, for his sexual pleasure.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto insisted that the serial must be re-telecast even if fresh recording is essential.
After the 1974 version was filmed, the entire TV serial has been well maintained by Pakistan Television,with a repeat telecast in 1990.