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.
Dawn: DHAKA: After being accused of “sucking blood” from the poor, Bangladesh’s only Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus faces a new state-backed hate campaign seeking to paint him as unIslamic and a spreader of homosexuality. Following years of attempts to discredit his legacy as a pioneer of micro-finance — since copied […]
Dawn.com: PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shaukatullah Khan on Thursday feared that Pakistanis could face travel restrictions over the growing polio cases in the country. “If the situation (high polio incidence) is not handled on war footing, there could be a ban on Pakistanis wanting to travel to Saudi Arabia for […]
Forbes: by James Lyne – This kind of malware is now all over the web and your chances of running in to it and being exploited are uncomfortably high. Some of the more widespread examples such as CryptoLocker even include a count down timer which claims if you don’t pay […]
Huff Post: by Katharine Houreld – ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan Oct 21 (Reuters) – When Shazadi Gillani, the highest ranking female police officer in Pakistan’s most conservative province, wanted to join the force she had to defy her father, forego marriage and pay for her own basic training. During the next 19 […]
alislam: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Brisbane on 22 October 2013 after a short flight from Sydney to […]
Russia Today: The Russian President has said the country’s Muslim leaders together with state authorities must counter the modern tendency of bringing politics into religion and making it radical. “Some […]
Huff Post: The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted acomprehensive demographic study of over 230 countries and territories in 2012, and some of their results might surprise you. […]
Ahmadiyya Times : An Ahmadī man is shot and injured in Orangi Town area of Karachi, in the southern province of Sind, Pakistan. Victim, identified as Syes Naseer Alam Shah, was riding a bicycle on his way to work yesterday when he was attacked by unknown assailant(s), it has been reported. […]
npr: by Deborah Amos – “We saw just a couple of weeks ago, the formation of a new front of Syrian rebels, called the Syrian Islamic Army,” Grause says, “and the Saudis seem to be the driving force behind that.” The Saudis continue to support the Free Syrian Army, the […]
washington post: Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA’s drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan’s government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos obtained by The Washington Post. The files describe dozens […]
Mufti Mahmud – Declaration of Ahmadis as Non-Muslim (2 of 3) The Parliament of Pakistan unanimously accepted a Bill and Constitutional Amendment declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims, in 1974. This is […]
Huff Post: It was a typical Saturday afternoon and I had decided to take my three-year-old daughter with me to the mosque to pray dhuhr (the afternoon prayer). While we were there, my head in prostration, my daughter running around in the vast open space, I began to wonder what […]
Huff Post: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Around 150 clerics and religious scholars have rallied outside the Saudi king’s palace, protesting against women seeking the right to drive. The senior religious leaders said the United States was behind a campaign calling for women to drive on […]
indianherald.com: Khalifa of Islam, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Hazrat Khalifat-ul-Masih V, Head of Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was invited to Australia by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Australia recently […]
Huff Post: In his recent article, Sam Harris, a popular critic of Islam, referred to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, as “the best thing to come out of the Muslim […]
The NewYork Times: by Mark Bittman – Fried food is probably not on anyone’s lists of healthy eats, but you have to start with this: Fat is good for you. The long-lived people of Crete might not drink a glass of olive oil a day, but they consume three times […]
CGAhmadiyya – A non-Ahmadi commentator who is also a big fan of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf recently left the old chanda allegation – implying Ahmadi funding is unaccounted for. It occurred to us, the best way to answer this allegation would be to compare the way Ahmadiyya donations are spent to how his […]
The NewYork Times: by Susan Stellin – The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information. While the agency says that the goal […]
The Express Tribune: by Ayehsa Ijaz Khan – Contrary to many of my peers, I never felt as hopeless or dejected about Pakistan’s future as I did during the past election. Some were hopeful because they saw in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ‘a new political force’ that would take on […]
Time: The Sultan of Brunei announced on Tuesday the gradual introduction of harsh Islamic punishments, such as death by stoning for adulterers, severing of limbs for theft and flogging for […]