RIP old comrade, Dr Manzoor Ahmed

Veteran progressive intellectual and an active member of Pakistan’s communist movement, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed of Shah Faisal Colony Karachi, died in Islamabad in the afternoon of January 15. He hailed from Allahabad where he attended University before moving to Pakistan. At the time of his passing away, he was about 82 years old, and had been [...]

Another Hasan Nasir Day in Karachi

Communist Party of Pakistan, Karachi Committee invitation: Hasan Nasir Day Monday, Nov 29, 4.00 pm, PMA House, Karachi Dr Mazher to preside Speakers include: Imdad Qazi, Justice (rtd) Fakhrudin G. Ebrahim, Wahid Bashir, Nasir Mansoor, Hassan Nasir, Dr Humayun Bashir, Dr Habibur Rehman Soomro, Dr Nisar Shah, Iqbal Alavi, Manzoor Razi, Fareed Awan, Ayub Qureshi, Khursheed [...]

Remembering Comrade Hasan Nasir

  50th death anniversary of Communist Party Pakistan leader Comrade Hasan Nasir Tortured & killed by military regime Nov 13, 1960 Commemorating his life and struggle at Karachi Press Club, 3.00 pm, Nov 14, 2010 Organised by Awami Party Pakistan Yusuf Khattak Tel. +92-301-288930045

Reference for Dr Ayub Mirza, Sept 26, Bradford

South Asian Peoples Forum is holding a Condolence Reference to pay homage to the late Dr. Ayub Mirza, former President Pak-China Friendship Association, former President PMA (Pakistan Medical Association), prominent Progressive Writer, biographer and Revolutionary Politician

Barkat Alam – an old comrade passes on

Barkat joined the Karachi student movement of the early 50s (and the Party), along with Mohammad Shafi and Saghir Ahmad, while still at school. All three of them played an active role in the movement. Many friends from that time will remember him with affection, a quiet, unassuming, serious-minded young man.

Karachi communists in the early 1950s: a contribution to the ‘Sarwar Reference’ by Eric Rahim

Eric Rahim re-visits the 1950, as a contribution to the Sarwar Reference. Broadly speaking, his recollections deal with two related issues that have received only marginal attention in the contributions made so far – the presence of the Communist Party in Karachi, and the causes of the inability of the student movement to sustain itself beyond the early 50s

‘Dr Sarwar and the 1950s student movement’ – 2004 posting

A good background by Shahid Husain to the fledgling 1950s student movement in Pakistan and how it was crushed, published in Daily Times on Jan 8, 2004 – posted to the beena-issues yahoogroup in Feb 2004

Report about Dr Sarwar passing on in ‘Awami Awaz’, May 27, 2009 (Urdu)

‘Taraqi pasand danishwar aur communist rahnuma Dr Sarwar intiqal kar gaye’ – Awami Awaz, May 27, 2009
(Note: Dr Sarwar was never a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan)

Report about Dr Sarwar reference in Sindhi daily ‘Anjam’, May 27, 2009

News item in Sindhi daily Anjam, May 27, 2009
(Note: Dr Sarwar was never a member of the Communist Party)