Archival photos – AISF, APSO, DSF, PMA, Dow Medical College

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PRESS RELEASE: “LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD”

Students traditionally observed January 8th as ‘Martyrs’ Day’ in memory of the students and passers-by killed by police firing on Jan 7, 1953, during the peaceful ‘Demands Day’ procession organised by Inter Collegiate Body (ICB) and Democratic Students Federation (DSF). The High School Students Federation (HSSF) also actively participated

Street Fighting Years – series on student politics by Saram Bokhari, DawnNews TV, 2009

‘Street Fighting Years’: Series on student politics by Saram Bokhari, DawnNews TV, 2009, including Episodes 4 & 5, a discussion with Dr Sarwar, Dr Haroon, Mazhar Saeed, Mirza Kazim, Mairaj M. Khan, Azhar Jamil, and Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Setting the record straight on DSF (2008 article by Dr Haroon & Saleem Asmi)

Spearheaded by Mohammad Sarwar, Mir Rehman Ali Hashmi, Asif Jaffery, Asif Hameed, Yousuf Ali and Haroon Ahmed, a group of students from Dow Medical College, feeling the need to address such issues, met in 1950 at Oudh restaurant on Mission Road. The Democratic Student Federation was launched with Mohammed Sarwar elected as convenor.

‘This wonderful Doc’ (2) – by Beena Sarwar

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