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.
Huff Post: The Catholic Church was slammed at the U.N. on Thursday about how they have historically handled cases of sex abuse by priests, as a committee investigated their adherence to […]
By Daniel Pipes: The Washington Times, December 27, 2013 The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400 -year-old religion from Arabia founded by […]
ET: PESHAWAR: With more than 90% of the current polio cases in the country genetically linked to Peshawar, it is now the largest reservoir of endemic poliovirus in the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported. Pakistan is the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 […]
ABC News: by Lucy Carter — A team of researchers from the University of New South Wales has uncovered a link between junk food and memory loss. The team placed rats on a diet high in sugar and fat and compared their performance with rodents on a healthy diet. Lead […]
ET: LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he had not so far seen any evidence that the English government of Margaret Thatcher had helped India plan a deadly […]
LONDON, January 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The county of Sussex is to have its first Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque opened in Crawley on Saturday 18th January. It will be inaugurated by His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide […]
ET: WASHINGTON: The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has released a manifesto claiming that the Quran forbids the use of violence to spread Islam. The document, published Tuesday by The Huffington Post and Britain’s Channel 4 News, marks Mohammed’s first public communication since 2009, when the US government officially […]
Guardian: To measure religious restrictions around the world, the Pew Research Center has attempted to look at government policies and social hostilities. Their findings suggest that religious hostilities are at their highest […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — My iPhone can do almost anything. But could it help me find God? An interview with Siri, the virtual assistant inside many Apple products, reveals that the spiritual teacher you’ve been looking for may have been in your pocket all along. After watching the excellent Spike Jonez […]
Eid Miladun Nabi: Mobile phone services suspended in various cities ET: Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Quetta, Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan cut off. KARACHI: Mobile phone services have been suspended in several cities of the country for security reasons on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi, Express News reported on Tuesday. Eid Miladun Nabi, […]
The Daily Beast: by Kapil Komireddi — In 1971, the U.S. abetted a genocide in Bangladesh—and it’s now siding with the radical Islamist culprits, who are fomenting the country’s latest political crisis. In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh. President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of […]
WORLD OBSERVER: JANUARY 13, 2014 The key Islamic heritage site, including Prophet Mohammed’s shrine, is to be bulldozed, as Saudi Arabia plans a $ 6 billion expansion of Medina’s holy Masjid an-Nabawi Mosque. However, Muslims remain silent on the possible destruction. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, is planned to […]
Daily Times: Jinnah’s idea of Islam was of social justice and equality and never of narrow-minded interpretations by the orthodoxy Yasser Latif Hamdani January 13, 2014 Comment Famous civil-servant columnist Orya Maqbool Jan continues to claim — like a broken record — in column after column that Jinnah’s August 11 […]
Inquirer.net: by Edwin Fernandez, Williamor Magbanua — KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato – Twenty-four persons were wounded, 17 of them in critical condition, when an improvised explosive device went off inside a state-run college in Arakan, North Cotabato on Sunday night. Senior Inspector Rolly Oranza, police chief of Arakan, said the […]
Huff Post These elaborately decorated Hindu temples sing praise to the glory of God with their breathtaking architecture. Hinduism is sometimes called the world’s oldest religion, and many of these sacred structures are full of history. Though these beautiful places of worship celebrate spirituality, noted Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda was careful to […]
Russia today: As world leaders send their condolences to Israel following the death of former PM Ariel Sharon, there are no tears shed among those who suffered most from his […]
Youtube: Published on Jan 11, 2014 Religious persecution in Pakistan of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community First broadcast: Friday 10 January 2014 on BBC Asia Network on the Nihal Show. Questions asked […]
Published on Dec 29, 2013 http://usawatchdog.com/2014-middle-ea… Gerald Celente, Publisher of The Trends Journal, predicts, “Absent the war card, I think we will see a financial crisis before the end of the second quarter of 2014.” Celente sums up what he sees in 2014 as “a year of extremes.” Join Greg Hunter as […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: The historic trial of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has thrown up a number of puzzling constitutional questions – particularly given that this case is the first of its sort in Pakistan. Among the questions are the arguments being posed by Musharraf’s legal team – and not only […]
http://mancunianmatters.co.uk: Islam is officially Manchester’s fastest growing religion and is expanding at more than double the rate of Christianity, MM can reveal. University of Manchester data analysed by MM revealed that […]