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.
Guardian: Twelve years ago, a few weeks into the occupation of Afghanistan, I suggested (in these pages) that the euphoria aroused by an easy conquest was misplaced. It would be a long war and one of its side effects would be to seriously destabilise Pakistan. Unfortunately, events have not contradicted the analysis. […]
Examiner.com: A mega religious conference is coming to London in less than two weeks that seeks “to restore the rightful contribution religion has to offer the 21st Century”. The event […]
Daily Times: GENEVA: The UN denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for failing to stamp out systematic child abuse and called on the Church to remove all clergy suspected of raping […]
Global Post: Two United States warships were headed to the Black Sea just two days before the Winter Olympics were set to begin in Sochi, Russia. The USS Mount Whitney sailed into the Black Sea, and the USS Taylor was slated to arrive later on Wednesday, NBC News reported. Pentagon officials […]
The Diplomat — As a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1935, I have a lifelong interest in the ways nations deal with their pasts. I am closely following developments in Japan, in particular the moves to revise Japanese textbooks in a nationalistic direction, the debate about […]
The Times of India: by Subhabrata Guha — When leaders fail to lead, people take charge and leaders then have to follow, says Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel laureate. In an exclusive interview to TOI, Annan expresses optimism that slowly and steadily, the world is gearing up to […]
theguardian: by Theo Hobson — In the previous article, I considered Rousseau’s political radicalism, at some speed. I want to offer a summarizing reflection on that theme, before moving on to his religious thought. Political justice, said Rousseau, depends on an understanding that state power belongs to the people, exists to […]
The Muslim Times’ Position: Shariah and Constitution: A Personal Journey ET: ISLAMABAD: There is no chance of peace in Pakistan until the government embraces Sharia law and US-led forces withdraw completely from Afghanistan, said negotiators representing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Wednesday. The tough conditions appear to deal a blow to hopes that […]
Global Post: HONG KONG — It’s a favorite pastime: Americans worried about their country’s direction love threatening to move abroad. “That’s it, I’m going to Canada!” they say. Of course, they almost never do. In China, however, that’s now no idle threat, especially for the rich. Amid a widening crackdown on corruption, China’s […]
CNN Health: by Ben Tinker — In recent years, sugar – more so than fat – has been receiving the bulk of the blame for our deteriorating health. Most of us know we consume more sugar than we should. Let’s be honest, it’s hard not to. The (new) bad news […]
theguardian: by Barbara Taylor — The obligations of friendship trumped madness – and this in itself could be a form of healing. Ward 16 of Friern Barnet mental asylum was an “acute admissions” ward, meaning it was meant for people in a highly disturbed state, needing plenty of care (and […]
ET: I was born in 1982, in the beautiful American city of San Jose, California. A proud patriotic Muslim American, my dad would decorate our house with lights every Fourth of July. Fast forward to the year 2001, when I got admitted to one of America’s top medical schools – the Harvard […]
Kentnews: THERE are dozens of mosques well established in the county, but for the first time the traditional dome and minaret familiar with the building will pierce the county’s skyline. […]
http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.co.uk: If we did not know that the lives of minorities are under immense threat in Pakistan, Haroon Khalid’s A White Trail, gobsmacks, nay, sucker punches us with the reality. The language is unpretentious; there is no mincing of words, no melodrama, no harangue or pontification. There is page after page of […]
Salon.com: According to a reportfrom the Huffington Post, Ryan Zinke, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Montana, recently called on his fellow conservatives to “focus on the real enemy.” Iran? Al Qaeda? North Korea? Nope! By “real enemy,” Zinke meant, of course, the “anti-Christ.” But you may know her better […]
Huff Post: by Megan Griffo — On Tuesday morning, a brain surgeon in Birmingham, Ala., walked six miles through a severe snow storm to save a patient’s life. Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw, Trinity Medical Center’s only neurosurgeon, had just finished surgery at a neighboring hospital when Steve Davis, the charge nurse at […]
Forbes: by Melanie Haiken — Business travelers, shift workers, college students, and overworked tech workers, beware. Unusual sleep patterns, particularly sleeping during the day and staying up late at night, wreak havoc with the activity of your genes, new research shows. Researchers at the Sleep Research Centre at the University […]
Daily Health Post — Richard Talbot, from Marconi Union, was fascinated to work with a therapist to learn how and why certain sounds affect people’s mood. Though he always knew the power of music, they had previously written songs using only their gut feeling. The Top 10 Most Relaxing Tunes: […]
tiny buddha: by Alexis Evans –— The pace of our world is frantic and seems to be constantly increasing. Despite this, I support the belief that life is not a race. Going faster doesn’t necessarily equate with accomplishing more or better. In actual fact, the opposite is usually true. If […]
CHITTAGONG: A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced 14 people to death, including the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), over a massive arms smuggling racket ten years ago. JI leader Motiur Rahman Nizami, 70, was sentenced to hang after being convicted over the racket involving 10 truckloads of arms seized by police […]