‘Three days that shook the country’ – Students’ Herald, January 19, 1953

The number of those killed remains a disputed figure. Below, scans from the Student Herald Martyrs’ Number, January 19, 1953 – ‘THREE DAYS THAT SHOOK THE COUNTRY: 27 Martyred; Hundreds Injured and Arrested’ (pages 10 & 13).

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.

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

Remembrances – by Hilda Saeed, July 27, 2009

In the 70s, and early 80s, Sibte Bhai, Suroor Bhai (scholar, writer Sibte Hassan, poet Suroor Barabankvi), with Anis and Haroon, Dr Badar and Shaheena Siddiqi, Mazhar, and so many more were often part of this lively, enriching group of friends. Sarwar, in his own quiet way, contributed so much, to such a variety of issues

‘Dr Sarwar and the 1950s student movement’ – 2004 posting

A good background by Shahid Husain to the fledgling 1950s student movement in Pakistan and how it was crushed, published in Daily Times on Jan 8, 2004 – posted to the beena-issues yahoogroup in Feb 2004