Materials related to the Democratic Students Federation and Pakistan’s first nation-wide student movement (1949-1954)
Chronology: Timeline of Pakistan’s first nation-wide student movement
Five-part series in The Friday Times by Beena Sarwar:
1. The blood in the streets, 8 Jan 2016
2. The Struggle For Democratic Spaces in Pakistan – II, 5 Feb, 2016
3. Oldest trick in the book, Feb 12, 2016
4. The struggle for democratic spaces in Pakistan – IV, Feb 26, 2016
5. High school rebels, 11 March 2016
Shahida Haroon – Reflections (Urdu) PDF file: shahida-haroon-yadoon-ke-dareeche
“Looking Back to Look Forward” – scans of the booklet published for the commemorative event held on Jan.10, 2010, Karachi.
Martyrs to the cause of students – text from Students’ Herald, Jan 19, 1953, memorialising those killed between Jan 7-9, 1953
Students Herald, Page ii (insert) with list of students killed on Jan 7 & Jan 8, 1953
Three days that shook the country – Students’ Herald report, Jan 19, 1953
Unity is our weapon, article by Mohammad Sarwar in Students’ Herald, Feb 6, 1953
Saghir Ahmed, General Secretary, High School Students’ Federation: School Students’ Glorious Contribution to Common Struggle, Students’ Herald, Feb 6, 1953
Mohammad Sarwar: Forward to the National Students’ Convention, report in Students’ Herald, Mar 9, 1953
Abdul Fazl: Security of employment and students, article in Students’ Herald, April 3, 1953
S.M. Naseem: Sarwar, DSF and the Students’ Herald
Ghazi Salahuddin: The High School Students’ Association and my rite of passage, for the Event Book published Jan 9, 2010
Jin ke piyar luT gaye – poem by Zehra Nigah for the Jan 1953 martyrs
Zehra Nigah’s poem written to commemorate the events of Jan 7-9, 1953 (in her own handwriting)
Introduction to Event Book published Jan 9, 2010
Beena Sarwar: Learning from history in an age of bombs
Eric Rahim: Karachi Communists in the early 1950s
Student movement leaders remembered – PPI report by Azhar Khan, Jan 10, 2010
Look back to look forward – curtain raisers and news reports commemorating DSF
Press note: Look back to look forward – the idea behind commemorating DSF in Jan, 2010
Zubeida Mustafa: Students who set the tone, published in Dawn, Jan 2010
Shahid Husain: Student Movement in Pakistan: A glorious past, Dec 2009
Street fighting years – series of television reports for DawnNews TV by Saram Bokhari
Dr Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi: Setting the record straight on DSF. 2008
Dr M. Sarwar (1930-2009) 
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