This page contains links to articles related to the Democratic Students Federation (1949-1954)
Chronology of the movement compiled by Beena Sarwar
Abdul Fazl: Security of employment and students, article in Students’ Herald, April 3, 1953
Mohammad Sarwar: Forward to the National Students’ Convention, report in Students’ Herald, Mar 9, 1953
Mohammad Sarwar:Unity is our weapon, article in Students’ Herald, Feb 6, 1953
Saghir Ahmed, General Secretary, High School Students’ Federation:
School Students’ Glorious Contribution to Common Struggle, Students’ Herald, Feb 6, 1953
Martyrs to the cause of students – text from Students’ Herald, Jan 19, 1953, on those killed between Jan 7-9, 1953
Three days that shook the country - Students’ Herald report, Jan 19, 1953
S.M. Naseem: Sarwar, DSF and the Students’ Herald
Ghazi Salahuddin: The High School Students’ Association and my rite of passage, for the Event Book published Jan 9, 2010
Zehra Nigah’s poem written to commemorate the events of Jan 7-9, 1953 (in her own handwriting)
Introduction to Event Book published Jan 9, 2010
Beena Sarwar: Learning from history in an age of bombs
Eric Rahim: Karachi Communists in the early 1950s
Student movement leaders remembered - PPI report by Azhar Khan, Jan 10, 2010
Look back to look forward - curtain raisers and news reports commemorating DSF
Press note: Look back to look forward – the idea behind commemorating DSF in Jan, 2010
Zubeida Mustafa: Students who set the tone, published in Dawn, Jan 2010
Shahid Husain: Student Movement in Pakistan: A glorious past, Dec 2009
Street fighting years - series of television reports for DawnNews TV by Saram Bokhari
Dr Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi: Setting the record straight on DSF
