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 [...]

Taking forward Dr Sarwar’s legacy (meeting note)

A Facebook group for Dr Sarwar; need to organise an event on Jan 8, 2010 to commemorate the students movement and its relevance today

Ali Sardar Jafri, Ismat Chughtai and friends, Karachi, 1980 (?) – Photos by S.M. Shahid

Photos by the photographer and musicologist S.M. Shahid, taken at the Arts Council in 1980 or so, when Ali Sardar Jafri and Ismat Chughtai visited Pakistan. Also photographed is the late poet Suroor Barabankvi, the prominent jurist Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim along with Dr M. Sarwar and Zakia Sarwar. The well-known television anchor Mujahid Barelvi is visible in one of the photos.

‘Time to create a left-oriented think tank’, News, Jun 1, 2009

At the meeting Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim said it was time to live up to the ideals of Dr Sarwar since “it’s our time to say.” He said the people of Pakistan needed a new leadership since the old leadership had failed totally. He said Dr Sarwar fought for a just society, a society free from exploitation and it was time to create a just society.

KARACHI: Progressive student leader remembered, June 1, 2009

Friends and admirers of the late Dr Sarwar belonging to different walks of life, including law, engineering, literature and the fine arts, spoke of their association with the late general practitioner at a meeting organised by the Pakistan Medical Association at the PMA House.

‘Celebrating Sarwar’ – pix from PMA meeting, May 31, 2009

Photos from the event ‘Celebrating Sarwar’ at PMA House, Karachi, May 31, 2009. More photos at – http://tinyurl.com/PMA-pix

‘Dr Sarwar intiqal kar gaye’ – BBC report, May 26, 2009

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2009/05/090526_serwar_dr_sen.shtml