PMA condemns colleague’s murder | Dr Baqir Shah

31st December, 2011 Press Release PMA CONDEMNS COLLEAGUE’S MURDER The Pakistan Medical Association, Karachi has strongly condemned the brutal murder of Dr. Baqir Shah, Police Surgeon, Quetta while performing his official duties. The reason for his killing is obvious: that he was the key witness of the Kharotabad incident. He had conducted the post-mortem examination [...]

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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

Students who set the tone – by Zubeida Mustafa

Today the student movement is virtually dead. The student unions that were banned in 1984 and which this government had promised to revive last year have yet to see the light of day. A break of over two decades means that the tradition of student activism of the kind Dr Sarwar espoused is no more. Is it possible in the present-day academic environment?

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

Reference for student leader – press release

A Reference for the pioneering student leader Dr. Muhammad Sarwar will be held here at HRCP’s Dorab Patel Auditorium on Saturday August 8 at 5 p.m.

Dr Sarwar – student activism photos and as a PMA office bearer

1950s-1980s – Dr Sarwar photos from student activist days and as a Pakistan Medical Association office bearer

Reference for Dr Sarwar, Aug 8, 5.00 pm, HRCP Lahore

A Reference for the pioneering student leader Dr Mohammad Sarwar will be held in Lahore on Aug 8 at the Dorab Patel Auditorium in Lahore, organized by friends and admirers of Dr Sarwar

‘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

PMA’s Faiz mushaira – photos 1983

Dr Sarwar was General Secretary of the Pakistan Medical Association when they held a ‘mushaira’ in 1983 to honour the progressive poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz whose poetry was anathema to the military regime of Gen. Ziaul Haq. In these photos, Dr Sarwar, Dr Badar Siddiqi and Dr Tipu Sultan sit on the dias along with Faiz Sahib, all of them clearly enjoying themselves.