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.
Smithsonian.com – Only 8 species were present in every single participant’s mouth. “No two people were exactly alike. That’s truly a fingerprint. In recent years, scientists have found out all sorts of remarkable things about a group of creatures that are entirely invisible to the naked eye: the trillions of bacteria […]
Dhaka: At least five persons were killed, over 100 injured, trains and a Hindu temple were attacked as opposition parties today enforced a 60-hour strike across Bangladesh demanding a neutral caretaker government to oversee the next general election. Supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its rightwing […]
Ahead of Bangladesh’s liberation in 1971, the Pakistani Army systematically committed genocide of the Hindu community in the then East Pakistan and the Nixon Administration turned a blind eye to it, a new book says. While the Indian Government was aware of it, it tried to play it down and […]
Three hundred and fourteen thousand Bangladeshis either at home or abroad are living in conditions of “modern slavery,” an Australia-based rights organisations has said. According to the Global Slavery Index report of the Walk Free Foundation, a total of 29.8m people are “enslaved” around the globe. “Bangladesh is […]
The future of Bangladesh depends on two men who don’t live there, both heirs apparent to the South Asian nation’s most powerful political dynasties. One is a technology consultant who lives in the U.S. with his American wife and young daughter. The other is reportedly studying for a law degree […]
theguardian – Name: Arnoud Van Doorn Age: 47. Appearance: White robes, white hat. Nice. Is he some sort of Dutch medical orderly? Nope. These days he also sports a beatific smile. He could be a happy medical orderly. He isn’t. He’s a happy Muslim. Good for him. Why is that? Because he is currently doing the hajj. […]
Mailonline: Alastair Campbell’s job with dictator was ‘set up by Tony Blair’ US government documents have revealed the extent of links between the former PM and lobbying group which employs his former spin doctor One entry appears to indicate that Mr Blair secured a contract with a public relations firm, […]
The NewYork Times: by Mark Landler – The president’s goal, said Ms. Rice, who discussed the review for the first time in an interview last week, is to avoid having events in the Middle East swallow his foreign policy agenda, as it had those of presidents before him. WASHINGTON — […]
Telegraph: US intelligence has been operating a global network of 80 eavesdropping centres, including 19 European listening posts in cities such as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid, the German magazine Spiegel has reported. The new revelations, which Spiegel said were based on leaked American intelligence documents, are certain to fuel […]
review of religions: September: In the words of the famous cosmologist and professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, Joao Magueijo: “Cosmology was for a long time the subject […]
Viewpoint: by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid – How can I accept Malala to be a hero, when her speeches do not have any Islamic or nationalistic agenda? How can I consider her to be my future leader when nothing she says or does imbues a false sense of superiority in me […]
The NewYork Times: by Stephanie Strom – Few things are more American than Coca-Cola. But bottled water is washing away the palate trained to drain a bubbly soda. By the end of this decade, if not sooner, sales of bottled water are expected to surpass those of carbonated soft drinks, […]
Russia Today: Washington is talking to Ankara over a $3.4 billion Turkish-Chinese deal, in which the two countries agreed to co-produce a long-range air and missile defense system. The US […]
Source: Alislam.org The Excellences of Prophethood From writings of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, The Promised Messiah The life of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, was a life of […]
The Independent: by Deema Almashabi, Glen Carey – A group of Saudi Arabian women plan to protest today against the world’s only ban on female drivers. Organisers are urging women across the country to take to the roads. The group, named the “26th October Women’s Driving Campaign,” called on the […]
abcNews: by Mari Yamaguchi and Ken Moritsugu – An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, triggering small tsunamis but causing no apparent damage. Japan’s meteorological agency said the quake was an aftershock of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that […]
Telegraph: I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning. Her equivocal attitude […]
Morning Star: ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Police and a banned Islamic extremist group in Lahore, Pakistan are searching for a young Christian accused of blasphemy – with the extremist group calling for his death – after he sought to correct misconceptions about Christianity in a Muslim book, sources said. Sources […]
Huff Post: by Brett Gallaher – Now I know what some of you may be thinking (and that’s precisely why I won’t be replying to every comment). How can I, blogger-person, know with certainty who is and isn’t going to Hell? How can a mere mortal know such mysteries of […]
dawn: WASHINGTON: US spies eavesdropped on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after White House, Pentagon and State Department officials gave them the numbers, The Guardian reported on Thursday. A classified document provided by fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the National Security Agency worked closely with the “customer” […]