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.
(Reuters) – Minerva Schools of KGI doesn’t yet have accreditation, a campus or even a full faculty roster, but it is offering something even Harvard can’t – four years of free tuition for its first matriculating class. The San Francisco-based Minerva Project, an ambitious effort to remake the higher education […]
Washignton Post: Bishop Fulton Sheen, the earliest and perhaps best known Catholic televangelist, once famously said, “There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, […]
LONDON (AFP) – Rights group Amnesty International announced on Tuesday it had awarded its highest honour to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot in the head last year by the Taliban […]
Arab news: House prices in Makkah have risen 100 percent as a result of high demand. Residents whose houses were demolished to make way for expansion projects around the Grand Mosque have also called for new houses. Citizens are now eyeing the suburbs of the holy city, including Al-Nawaryeh, Al-Sharaie and […]
Published on Sep 16, 2013 What is at stake for Tehran as Washington deals with Syria? Is Obama genuinely interested in diplomacy? And could the dreadful conflict in Syria be […]
theguardian: by Victoria Coren Mitchell. But I know this much: I will never again think that a veiled woman is strange or unknowable. Whether we’re both right or both wrong, I will recognise her as very familiar – only, perhaps, having made her choices more decisively than I make mine. […]
Guardian: Individuals and institutions should be able to make their own decisions [on the veil] ad hoc.’ Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Do we really want a “national debate” about veiling? […]
Huff Post: by Vishal Arora. RNS) Quick: Where was the Buddha born? To hear many Indians talk, you’d think it was India, where he attained enlightenment and gave his first sermon. But the people of Nepal know better — and they are eager to correct misconceptions about the Awakened One, […]
Huff Post: by Jamal Halaby. AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s king warned Tuesday that ethnic and sectarian violence sweeping across several Arab countries could lead to the “destruction” of the Muslim world. Abdullah II’s remarks came at a conference in the Jordanian capital of 100 religious scholars, both Sunni and Shiite, […]
BBC: Pakistan battles growing alcohol addiction Alcoholism is a growing problem in Pakistan despite it being illegal for the Muslim majority to drink. The BBC’s Charles Haviland finds lives ruined and clinics and therapy groups trying to overcome a taboo subject. Late one night, the beat of dance music drifts down […]
Russia Today: The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT and created its own money flows database. Referring to information leaked by Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee […]
ET: LAHORE: Speakers at an anti-Ahmadi conference on Saturday vowed to expel all members of the Ahmadi community from the city. The Radd-i-Qadianiyat Conference was held at Jamia Naeemia. The participants were told they had a duty to wage a holy war against Ahmadis. The audience which included a large number of […]
The Independent: By Omar Waraich A fortnight ago, tens of thousands of members of the Ahmadi Muslim community gathered in the historic English market town of Alton. They were there for an annual conference. This year, the community was also marking the centenary of its presence in Britain. As far […]
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(Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed a Pakistani general and another officer on Sunday near the border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani army said, rare high-ranking casualties in Pakistan’s war against militants. Major General Sanaullah Khan, along with a lieutenant colonel and another soldier were killed in the Upper Dir district after […]
Huff Post: A Christian school in the Netherlands, Pieter Zandt Scholengemeenschap, was horrified to find an allegedly satanic symbol in its latest student agenda, asking parents and students to return the planners for shredding. That symbol? A peace sign. School board chairman Johan van Puten told Dutch newspaper Trouw that a Google search revealed […]
Huff Post: by Arianna Huffington. Philosophers have known this for centuries. “No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility,” wrote the first-century Stoic philosopher Seneca in his Moral Letters to Lucilius. And in practically every religious tradition and practice, giving […]
examiner.com: The Khalifa of Islam issued a stern caution to the world leaders that the current global situation – centered around the conditions inSyria – ‘is fast moving towards a devastation.’ Hadhrat (His Holiness) Mirza […]
Source Twitter: Harris Zafar (@Harris_Zafar) tweeted at 5:02 AM on Sun, Sep 15, 2013: We did it!! @MuslimYouthUSA created 600 food relief bags for the poor in less than 3 minutes, shattering @Walmart’s Guinness record. #AsOne What happens when @MuslimYouthUSA gathers hundreds of #Muslim youth @ annual retreat? They set […]
Guardian: A college has abandoned its ban on Muslim face veils after a storm of local protest, a planned demonstration and the involvement of the prime minister. Birmingham Metropolitan College climbed down […]