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.
War on the Rocks: by Myra McDonalds — The past few months have seen a particularly high-profile series of murders in Pakistan. An American cardiologist volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan was shot dead because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi community. A lawyer and human rights activist was killed after he took up […]
The Verge: by Carrie Arnold — Her parents were running out of hope. Their teenage daughter, Mary, had been diagnosed with a severe case of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as ADHD. They had dragged her to clinics around the country in an effort to thwart the scary, intrusive thoughts […]
The Washington Post: by Terrence Mccoy — In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon […]
Dawn.com — The London Metropolitan police confirmed that a 60-year-old man had been arrested from a North-West London property on charges of money-laundering, but they declined to disclose the exact identity for “legal reasons”. The police said a Specialist Operations unit was currently carrying out a search operation at the […]
The Express Tribune: by Asad Rahim Khan — It’s not stoning to death. Not exactly, if we’re to follow the police’s line. A woman wasn’t stoned to death in broad daylight, by a mob of blood relations. She was beaten to death with bricks. In a sick society, the means […]
ABNA — The documentary offered a window to many Australian Muslims to share their own experiences of facing discrimination. A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of Islam has been approved to be shown to high school students in South Australia, in a step forward towards fighting […]
Rttnews.com: Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions have called on Pakistan to adopt urgent measures to stop faith-based killings and ensure the security of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is outlawed in the country. The human rights experts’ call comes after renewed […]
Huff Post: The past few weeks have unveiled some horrific stories of human rights abuse. The world was first shocked by the death sentence handed to Meriam Ibrahim, the then […]
Huff Post: by Kecia Ali — Whose sharia is this? It is certainly not mine. I cannot believe that it is God’s. It has been a lousy month for Islamic law. First, there was the kidnapping and sale of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram, which claimed religious acceptability for their […]
Dawn: DO you judge a society by how it treats its mighty or its vulnerable? What do you call a state that serves the powerful and not the weak? What distinguishes a civilised society from a jungle if survival of the fittest is the rule in both? What is the […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Teachers are to be sent on training programmes to help them stop extremism entering the classroom, as damning reports show that some state schools have been imposing Islamic practices and […]
The NewYork Times: by Nitahsa Tiku — So what if, instead of trying to guess at what might get girls interested in technology, we looked at what’s already on their screens? While parents often worry about recreational “screen time,” some educators now believe that gaming could be a way to […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly Monday demanded the disbandment of the Council of Islamic Ideology while passing a resolution to stop implementation on the CII’s earlier decisions, DawnNews reported. The resolution was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional’s (PML-F) leader Mehtab Akhtar Rashidi. The Assembly expressed serious reservations over the recent decisions […]
Dawn.com: by Gohar Ali Khan — HYDERABAD: A number of residents of various localities of Tando Allahyar city and activists of religious parties took to the streets against alleged desecration of the Holy Quran and attacked the home-cum-worship place of a man belonging to the Ahmedi community for his involvement […]
Guardian: by David Eggboro — An international Muslim group, which runs the largest mosque in London, has celebrated its centenary year in the UK at an event in Theydon Bois. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, which aims to promote a positive image of Islam, held the event at Theydon Bois Village […]
Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — By the early hours of Monday morning, it appeared clear that the party of Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won an extraordinary victory in countrywide municipal […]
Dawn: INCIDENTS of communal violence targeted at Sindh’s Hindu population are occurring with disturbing regularity. On early Friday morning a Hindu temple in Hyderabad was set on fire by unidentified arsonists, resulting in damage to an idol and the structure itself. Earlier this month a dharamshala in Larkana was attacked […]
theguardian: by Peter Walker and Susan Schulman — Shepperd said his involvement changed his view about the religion’s take on several subjects, for example the position of women. He said: “If you look at the popular misconceptions about Islam, that isn’t the case at all. It’s great to be working […]