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 [...]

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

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Cambridge Karachi Portrait: Dr Sarwar

British artist and filmmaker Caroline Jaine was recently in Pakistan as part of her Cambridge – Karachi project,in which she finds connections between these two cities. She has edited several short films for story-telling purposes and is about to begin work on the 23 minute film about Karachi. The part on Dr Sarwar is embedded [...]

PMA protest walk and press release

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED PENDING NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SINDH GOVERNMENT

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 [...]

Ninth Hamza Alavi Distinguished Lecture

Irtiqa Inst. of Social Sciences: 9th Hamza Alavi Distinguished Lecture “Feudalism & the Process of Change in Pakistan” by Arif Hasan TODAY Sat., Nov 13 5.00 pm at Dr Zaki Hasan Auditorium (Jinnah Medical & Dental College, Shaheed-e-Millat Road), Karachi From: Iqbal Alavi, tel 03009276504

Sarwar, DSF and the ‘Students’ Herald’ – S.M. Naseem

Our resources were extremely limited – the paper sold for two annas per copy, slightly more than the cost of a cup of tea in those days. Our editorial office moved from one Irani tea shop to another between Burns Road and Bunder Road where most of the colleges were clustered and we were constantly shadowed by the CID inspector who was assigned to find out what we were bringing out in the next issue.

‘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