By Amin H. Karim MD On January 19 1978, the Third Annual Convocation ceremony was held on the grounds of Dow Medical College, Karachi. The class of 1975 graduating in 1977 were to receive their degrees and honor certificates and medals. The event was presided by Marhoom Ehsan Rasheed, Vice Chancellor of Karachi University andRead More
Category: 1977
The class activities, related pictures and more …
Dow Class of 1977 Surgical Residency
Dow Class of 1977 in their Surgical Training Program, Civil Hospital Karachi with Prof. Fazle Ilahi and Dr. Maula Buksh Jamali. 1978.
Arts and Crafts Competition Dow Medical College 1971
An intercollegiate Arts and Crafts Competition was organized in 1971, organised by Hashim Shariat. Girls from Home Economics College Karachi, led by Ms. Shehla Qaiser helped out. Dr. Meher Bano of class of 1977 and Dr. Ghazala Durrani Class of 1977 won the first and second prize in Embroidery. Prof. Fazle Ilahi distributed the prizes. Photo isRead More
Musical Competition at Dow Medical College 1974.
Dow Medical College Karachi in the 1970’s; Many social events took place including Mushairas, Variety Shows, Debates, Talent shows. This is a Musical Competition with the Amanat Ali and brothers as judges sometimes in 1974. Our Dow 77 colleague Dr. Shahid Rafique won. Some of our colleagues are sitting in the front rows. Photo is courtesy of Dr.Read More
DowLite International 1976-77 (Quaid Number)
DowLite International 76-77 The above link opens up the entire DowLite International 1976-77 Issue in the .pdf format and you can read it on your computer. There are many interesting articles by Dow students, photos of the events in those days. If you have similar souvenirs please contact me at globelinker@gmail.com and I will adviseRead More
Namood-e-Seher 1974: Urdu Souvenir of Dow Medical College, Karachi.
Thanks for Dr. Hamid Zaki, Past President of Dow Medical College Student’s Union I was able to get a copy of the Souvenir, had it scanned and uploading it to this website. Professor Abdul Wahid, Principal of Dow Medical College and Patron of Namood-e-Seher. To read the souvenir, please click below and the entire .pdfRead More
Dow Medical College Annual Souvenir 1973-74
AnnuelSouvenir73-74 Here is the Annual Souvenir of Dow Medical College 1973-74. The copy was courtesy of Dr. Hamid Zaki of class of 1977. Amin H. Karim MD
Advent of Karachi Medicos Association 1973-74
Founding and early members of Karachi Medicos Association. 1973-74 Photo is courtesy of Dr. Haroon Khan from UK. Drs. Anwar Jalil, Salman Faridi, Zafarullah Syed, Hamid Zaki, Mughisuddin Ahmed helped in tagging the photo. (all of Class of 1977) In the 60s and 70’s Dow was the hot bed of politics from its inception inRead More
Dow Class of 1977 Ruby Anniversary December 2017
Beyond Nostalgia: 40 years on….and counting! By Prof. Murad M. Khan, Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. “You do not come to Dow Medical College to learn medicine. You come to Dow Medical College to learn about life…” (Sarfaraz Ahmed, Class of ’74) “This must be the most unusual batch I haveRead More
Dow Class of 1977 Photo Gallery
These photos are courtesy of the members of the class and from various times, some informal get to gethers in various parts of the world. Most of these are on the facebook group of Dow1977. if you recognize someone please mention it in comments and if you share these photos please mention www.thedowdays.com. Thanks.