Introduction to Event Book, Jan 9, 2010

In honouring these activists today two facts speak for themselves. First, the movement was really broad-based and took roots in almost all colleges. Secondly, as their brief thumbnail sketches clearly show, these activists were not professional politicos or troublemakers, but serious students who cared about their studies as much as about the environment they studied in

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

Jan 9-10, 2010: Event to honour and take forward the legacy of the 1950s student movement

Event to honour and take forward the legacy of Dr Sarwar and the 1950’s student movement ie. nationwide student unity based on issues concerning students, independent position (non-alignment to any political party or ideology), and organisation

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.

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

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

Friends, followers pay tributes to Dr Sarwar

Scan of a report published in Dawn, Lahore edition, Aug 9, 2009 (not available on the website). N.B. Note of correction below Correction: As mentioned in the press release sent out earlier, the event was organised by ‘friends and admirers of Dr Sarwar and his legacy’. The initiator of the event was Dr Farrukh Gulzar, working [...]

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.

Celebrating Dr M. Sarwar: Student movement revisited – Aug 8 Lahore event

Dr Sarwar’s Reference at the HRCP on Aug 8 was very well attended thanks to the passion, commitment and hard work of Dr Farrukh Gulzar, and also the involvement of Husain Naqi and Zaman Khan of HRCP and Ammar Ali Jan of the Labour Party Pakistan

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.