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.
ET: ISLAMABAD: A bomb scare in the Pakistan Secretariat resulted in employees rushing out of the complex in a panic on Friday, Express News reported. Defense Minister Khawaja Asif was in the secretariat’s block C, and had been receiving threats. The bomb was reported to be in either block A, B, C or D […]
Time: by Alice Park — What makes cells age? Wear and tear, yes. But biologically, says, Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, it’s lack of oxygen that signals cells that it’s their time to go. Without oxygen, the energy engines known as the mitochondria become less […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine, Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin, interfaith activist Muslims worldwide have recently joined together to celebrate Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. This day is an opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims, such as myself – a Catholic – to reflect upon the life and […]
Guardian: Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim, declared the Times on its front page on Friday, indicating what it describes as a “startling […]
Global Post: Human Rights Watch slammed international powers for not doing more in Syria and sharply criticized America’s “virtually unchecked mass electronic surveillance” in a report released Tuesday. The 667-page annual report highlights key human rights issues in 90 countries. Kenneth Roth, the New York-based advocacy group’s executive director, presented the findings […]
Huff Post: by Dr. Gail Gross — You’re going on a family road trip with your adult siblings. Which of these three scenarios sounds most like you? 1. You’ve been planning it for weeks, secured the hotel rooms, made restaurant reservations, had the car’s oil changed and have a tank […]
theguardian — Students should be allowed to use computers to solve problems in class and in exams, according to one education expert ‘In the UK why do we introduce coding in primary schools but ban calculators? Instead, why not allow pupils to solve problems using computers in class and […]
Russia Today: What began as an ordinary Friday night for a barman at an upscale London steakhouse ended on a more dramatic note after former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair […]
Salon.com: When Nelson Mandela died last month, I envied South Africans who had worked alongside him for freedom: Americans haven’t gotten to see many of our icons of justice get that old. My immediate thought was of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated at 39, though Bobby and John Kennedy, […]
Russia Today: As Council of Europe parliamentarians brace for a clash, the Israeli Knesset prepares a short film praising circumcision to be shown in response to other elements within the council actively seeking to fight the practice on human rights grounds. The pro-circumcision film will be presented on Monday at […]
global post: by Noga Tarnopolsky — JERUSALEM — Israel and Saudi Arabia aren’t used to finding themselves on the same side of an argument. But the interim deal curtailing Iranian nuclear development, beginning its implementation today, seems to have achieved the impossible. The agreement, signed last November, in which Iran’s nuclear […]
Professor M H Nuri – Rabwah Introduction Jesus Christ did not Die on the Cross – A Cardiologist’s Perspective In recent years, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ(as) has stimulated considerable interest. […]
Cambridgenews:Hate crimes against Muslims have soared in Cambridgeshire, new data reveals. : The brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in a London street triggered an increase in Islamophobic crime in […]
The daily star: I was born in Pakistan, a few months before the war which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971. And it was only after I moved to the US that I recognised the magnitude of human rights abuses the Pakistani army committed against their […]
theguardian — Zoe Williams says that if you place religious belief on the human rights agenda then you have to allow atheism equal weight (Comment, 15 January). It would be better to simply place “religious belief or non-belief” on the agenda. This is because the term “atheist” is freighted with much excess […]
Don’t assume the rainbow-hued volunteer uniforms at the Sochi Winter Olympics mean that Russia is softening its hardline stance against homosexual propaganda. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his government has nothing against gay people, as long as they leave kids alone, according to Reuters. “There is no ban on non-traditional […]
Death toll rises to 21 after Afghan blast in Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners The death toll in a Taliban attack on a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners and affluent […]
ET: MUMBAI: At least 18 people died in a stampede in India’s financial capital of Mumbai early on Saturday after thousands gathered to mourn the death of the 102-year-old leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a city official and television reports said. The stampede took place outside the home of Syedna Muhammad […]
Global post: A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place. “The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread destruction and looting, and child soldier recruitment,” the […]
examiner.com: An important U.S. Congressional hearing onPlight of Prisoners of Conscience was held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at Capitol Hill today, it is reported. The Chairman of the […]