Dr. Abdul Alim is a national of Pakistan and is a physician with specialization in Public Health from University of Texas at Houston USA. He is a member of the reformist, democratic and moderate Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam which inspires his deep commitment to Human Rights, Social Justice, Peace and Secularism. He is an author and Editor on Islam, for The Muslim Times (www.themuslimtimes.Info), a global blog highlighting the positive and true character of Islam as a basis for peace building.
Professionally he is a member of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and UN Development Policy Network. He has more than 20 years of work experience in development management related to governance in social sectors, more specifically in public policy, programme planning, and monitoring and evaluation. For the last 15 years he has worked with the United Nations in the developing world covering countries in South Asia, South East Asia, CEE/CIS, and the Middle East.
Dawn: UNITED NATIONS: Asma Jahangir, the former president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has been nominated to a three-member panel to advise UN on alleged human rights […]
theguardian: by Yassir Morsi — Islamophobia is not just bigotry or fear. It’s a frenzy that fills the gaps in our social imagination. As Badar’s cancelled talk shows, it also doesn’t require the Muslim to say anything In the last two days we have seen an eruption of Australia’s public and […]
Published on Jun 24, 2014 Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth respond to ISIS video. MKA Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/MKAUKVideos REMEMBER: Please subscribe to this channel to stay up to date and get more of […]
Global Post: MADRID, Spain — Half a century ago, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand presented Jews living here with a stark choice: leave, convert or face burning at the stake. Some 50,000 […]
Los Angeles Times: by Robyn Dixon —- Islamic extremists in Nigeria reportedly kidnapped 60 more girls and women along with 31 boys More than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls are still being held by Boko Haram two months after their kidnapping At least 91 people – more than 60 women and girls, […]
South Wales Evening Post — A Swansea bus with the new Love For All, Hatred For None campaign on it. A MUSLIM group is hoping to drive home a message about shared British and Islamic value in an eye-catching way — on the buses. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is marking […]
Huff Post: by Murali Balaji — One of the great things about The Huffington Post is its willingness to provide a forum for open discourse about the role religion can play in social uplift. To the dismay of many of us who write regularly for the publication, however, an article this week […]
Written for The Muslim Times by Dr. Abdul Alim In a recent article in Huffington Post, my friend Qasim Rashid, the author of “the Extremist” has given a very bold […]
ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh’s war crimes court delayed a verdict on the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami at the last minute Tuesday after doctors said he could not be moved from jail due to ill health. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, who could face the death penalty for alleged war crimes such as genocide during the […]
peacefmonline.com: The Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has described the late Maulvi Wahab Adam, the Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, has passed away at […]
Oregonlive: by George Rede — Harris Zafar and his son, Rohan, then 2, participate in a Friday prayer service at the Portland Rizwan Mosque in Southwest Portland. (Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian/2010) This is one in an occasional series of brief interviews with newsmakers, experts and other people with interesting perspectives in western […]
The Star: Religion is an idea of life, the universe and everything stating how we should live. What will happen to us after death. A God – or at least […]
Toronto Star: Nearly a month after Canadian cardiologist and member of Islam’s Ahmadi sect, Mehdi Ali Qamar was shot to death in Pakistan, thousands of members of the controversial Muslim minority gathered in Mississauga on Saturday to pledge their allegiance to a peaceful jihad. “What is our response? Are we going […]
Columbus Dispatch: A memorial was held in Madison Township for a “martyr” yesterday. About 100 relatives, friends and colleagues gathered to remember Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar of Pickerington at the service at the Ba’it ul Nasir mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. That wasn’t as many as the 7,000 who […]
Huff Post: by Todd Green, PhD — There is an organized cottage industry in the U.S. that makes a living out of demonizing Muslims and stirring up fears of a formidable “Islamic threat.” Nathan Lean refers to this industry as the “Islamophobia Industry.” It is a multi-million dollar network with deep pockets […]
The Economic Voice — Thousands of young British Muslim men have gathered in the Surrey countryside to rally against ISIS and radical Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) is holding an Ijtema, an Arabic word which means gathering, and calling on the young Muslim men of Great Britain to […]
hindustantimes: by Rajesh Ahuja — Two terror suspects — Haidar Ali and Mujibullah — arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 21 on the charges of executing serial blasts in Bodhgaya and Patna — visited Qadian in Punjab on a reconnaissance mission with a plan to target a congregation of […]
Ibtimes.co.uk: Thousands of British Muslims are gathering in Surrey this weekend at a mass peace rally aimed at rejecting religious extremism. Some 5,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association […]
Kashifmd.com: Bigotry of any sort – whether based on race, gender, religion or ethnic background – is like cancer. It must be condemned in its start before it metastasizes and takes root in society. At this point, it is usually too late to cure the disease, which rapidly progresses to […]
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]