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Dow Medical College Karachi Class of 1959 celebrating their 60th Anniversary at the Karachi Gymkhana. What a privilege! Staying in touch and meeting together 60 years after graduating! Famous Karachi pediatrician and tireless health advocate Prof. Ghaffar Billo is second from left. Can anyone recognize others? Please state in your comments and we will tagRead More
Dr Abdul Gaffar Billoo, veteran pediatrician and Professor emeritus at the Aga Khan University, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, A 1959 graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi, and served as the Chair of Paediatrics & Child Health at Dow Medical College and as Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Karachi University. We were his students inRead More
This page was sent to me from Prof. Abdul Wahid’s daughter Prof. Zarnaz Waheed. He wrote these verses, it seems in 1959 or maybe later. He read this after his retirement in 1985 at the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Class of 1960. Dr. Mohammad Hafeez Rahman recorded this and the video hasRead More
Professor Salma Vahidy-Akram passed away on November 27 2014 Photos courtesy of Dr. Azhar Iqbal. Note from Dr. Ahmed Sayeed Houston, Texas (Dow 1960) Dr Salma Akram was wife of my class fellow Dr Mohammed Akram. Both were Pathologists and became professors at Dow Medical College. Dr Salma was 1959 Dow graduate, one year seniorRead More
Class of 1960: GROUP OF 3RD. YR. MBBS STUDENTS WITH Late PROF A.M. KASSIM IN JINNAH HOSPITAL KARACHI .1959. SITTING LT TO RT :DR.INAM, DR.SAIF, PROF.KASSIM,DR.HAFEEZ AKHTAR. DR.SADIQ , STANDING L TO R. GHAFFAR DADA, SAYEED, JUMSHYD,ABDUL, GHAFFAR, QADIR HASHIMI, GHAFFAR KHAN, ABBAS GHANI Dr. Hafiz Akthar was the President of Pakistan Medical Association and presently lives in Islamabad.Read More
In 2005, we embarked on a project where we wanted to compile the accurate class lists of each graduating class. This turned out to be a challenge because there was no electronic record and class registers were hand written by the clerks over the years since 1950s. We encounters, old dusty registers, broken files, andRead More
