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.
Alt altanglenews — AROUND 5,000 Muslim men have gathered at Britain’s largest Muslim youth rally pledging allegiance to Queen, Country, Qur’an and Gary Cahill. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) will spend three days in the Surrey countryside studying holy texts, discussing their faith and praying communally. But […]
The Independent: A private Christian School in Manchester has defended using American textbooks on their curriculum which state God wants wives to submit to their husbands, children can avoid AIDS […]
Aljazeera: Disturbing cases of extreme violence against women from around the world have come to the fore in the past few weeks. Farzana Parveen’s murder in Pakistan highlighted the country’s dismal record of women killed in so-called honour killings. According to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission, 869 women were murdered in 2013 in […]
Source: Express & Echo Buses displaying messages of peace will be rolled out across Devon in the next week as part of a campaign aimed at preventing the spread of […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Confucius points to the Noble Person, chün tzu, as the epitome of human development, a person of moral goodness who is described as having fulfilled a variety of the salient Confucian virtues including goodness, jen, righteousness, i, […]
Huff Post: by Sarah Harvard — The Benghazi quasi-controversy took an ugly turn at a recent panel on the issue conducted by the Heritage Foundation, when prominent anti-Islam activist Brigitte Gabriel decried “180 million to 300 million Muslims’ quest for the destruction and dominance of Western civilization” — comments that […]
Asian Human Rights Commission — Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an editor and publisher is facing serious threats to his life from Muslim militants for publishing an autobiography of a retired judge of the Lahore High Court who hails from the Ahmadi sect. According to […]
Dawn.com —- Beijing: Fleeing discrimination and violence, members of the Ahmadiyya community have abandoned their homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in China. “Every day I heard the sound of guns,” said a 37-year-old surnamed Saeed of his former home Lahore. “We prayed every day, because we felt […]
theguardian: by Alia Waheed — Two years ago, the director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar. She was 33 at the time, and the film was Saving Face, a documentary short about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. The film followed plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad, […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is the largest refugee-hosting country in the world with currently hosting some 1.6 million registered refugees. The data released by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on the World Refugees Day say that the Afghanistan remains the world’s leading source of refugees. According to figures, around […]
Epigraph: And worldly life is nothing but a sport and a pastime. And surely the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then […]
Source: LONDON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Ahmadiyya Muslims pledge loyalty to Queen and country As the British Government considers steps to stem radicalisation, one of Britain’s oldest established Muslim communities drives […]
IAEA: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics stems the brain drain of physicists from developing nations at a time of new scientific challenges. In the early 1960s, both […]
theguardian: by Linda Sarsour — I am Muslim and I am American. Speaking out against the Islamophobia industry is how I practice my patriotism. Spreading hate against Muslims is, apparently, a quite lucrative business in the United States. Saba Ahmed’s experience demonstrates that there is a systematic demonization of Muslims […]
Loonwatch: By Jai Singh Previous articles in this series: “Narendra Modi and the rise of India’s neo-fascist Far-Right”, and “Nazism and Narendra Modi: The ideological influence on India’s next Prime Minister”. India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member of both the Bharatiya Janata Party(“BJP”) and its neo-Nazi paramilitary “ideological […]
WSJ: Americans slept more and worked less last year, reflecting an economy that remains groggy after the recession and an older population with more time to rest. Averaging together both weekdays and weekends, Americans older than 14 slept for eight hours, 44 minutes and conducted work-related activities for three hours, […]
Russia Today: UK Prime Minister and German interior minister have warned on Wednesday that Islamist fighting in the Middle East is going to directly affect Europe as jihadists are going […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — A woman’s dress, marital status, and lifestyle do not inspire violence against women. Violence against women exists because the men in their lives — single, married and strangers — commit that violence. Violence against women exists because men do not treat women with respect. […]
Patheos.com: LISA ASKS: Do all religions teach separation between church and state? If not, which ones, and why? THE RELIGION GUY ANSWERS: Separation of church and state (the usual phrasing […]
Slate.com: In the first, in the colonial years, a unitary executive, the King of England, ruled without checks and balances, allowing no freedom of speech, due process, or privacy when it came to protecting his power. In the second, the principles of the Enlightenment and an armed rebellion were used […]