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“Students Movement leaders remembered: Revival of student activism termed must for reshaping society” – PPI report
Posted on January 16, 2010 by beenasarwar
Student speakers stated that majority of students do not raise their voices against evil practices that are being imposed on them. They held education institutions responsible for not providing the right platform to raise their voices. Lastly, they urged all students to recall such sacrifices of students in 1953 movement to acquire freedom in their campuses and education institutions.
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‘Three days that shook the country’ – Students’ Herald, January 19, 1953
Posted on November 16, 2009 by beenasarwar
The number of those killed remains a disputed figure. Below, scans from the Student Herald Martyrs’ Number, January 19, 1953 – ‘THREE DAYS THAT SHOOK THE COUNTRY: 27 Martyred; Hundreds Injured and Arrested’ (pages 10 & 13).
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Taking forward Dr Sarwar’s legacy (meeting note)
Posted on September 25, 2009 by beenasarwar
A Facebook group for Dr Sarwar; need to organise an event on Jan 8, 2010 to commemorate the students movement and its relevance today
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‘This wonderful Doc’ (2) – by Beena Sarwar
Posted on July 5, 2009 by beenasarwar
Sarwar practiced as a general physician for nearly fifty years from his modest clinic in a low-income area, consciously charging low fees and treating struggling workers, journalists, artists and writers for free. He was contemptuous of doctors who charged high fees, prescribing costly tests and medicines where less expensive ones would do
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‘Dr Sarwar and the 1950s student movement’ – 2004 posting
Posted on June 26, 2009 by beenasarwar
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
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