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.
BBC News: by Rebecca Morelle. Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests. US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war. The team […]
thepersecution.org: Pakistan was invaded on September 6, 1965. Why it was invaded? Because an Ahmadi General was on the point of locking several Indian army divisions in Jammu and Kashmir. It was an amazing military feat. All these military operations were taking place in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the […]
Global Post; WASHINGTON — The United States said it would close 21 embassies around the world on Sunday and issued a travel alert over security concerns linked to Al Qaeda. The State Department listed the embassies on Friday, which range from Algeria to Yemen and beyond. Spokeswoman Marie Harf on Thursday called the step […]
currenttrends.org: by Farahnaz Ispahani: Pakistan’s religious minorities are widely viewed as embattled or under attack. This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of Pakistan’s policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim as well as non-Muslim. It is not only Pakistan where Muslim as well as non-Muslim minorities are under attack. Rather, this […]
Salon.com: An idea’s been floating around for some time that whales more than chewed people — that they swallowed them, and people might have survived in the stomach. Jonah’s story came first, and then there were rumors from the 19th century Yankee Whale Fishery — whaling ships leaving New York […]
Healthy Living: by Lisa Arends. If you’re anything like me, you find that your life’s to-do list grows longer each year while your available time seems to grow shorter. Perhaps you make the same resolutions each season (lose weight, eat better, stress less… sound familiar?) only to find that you […]
iflac.wordpress.com: As the first woman, Ada was invited to speak in the Ahmedim Mosque in Haifa. Ada speaking in the Ahmedim Mosque in Kababir Ada writes: “A wonderful thing happened […]
loonwatch: BY MARWAN MUHAMMAD, ELSA RAY AND MICHAËL PRIVOT BRUSSELS – A police check of a Muslim woman wearing the full-face veil recently sparked riots in a Paris suburb, and […]
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:05 pm Press Release: Amnesty International Indonesia: Human Rights Committee Makes Recommendations On Civil and Political Rights Amnesty International urges the Indonesian government to take concrete and immediate steps to implement recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Committee to ensure that civil and political rights are […]
The Frontier Post: PESHAWAR (INP): Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer was killed in a drone attack in Shawal valley of the North Waziristan tribal area, in 2012, claimed Taliban […]
Huff Post: Daniel Cox. With roughly three-in-ten (31 percent) Millennials now identifying as religiously unaffiliated the debate over why this generation is abandoning religion at an unprecedented rate has mostly centered around two explanations: Millennials are leaving because they do not like churches, but will eventually return as the churches […]
e.alalam.ir Saudi political activist, known as Mujtahidd, has revealed that Al Saud government has helped Egyptian defense minister with one billion dollars to topple former president Mohamed Morsi. Mujtahid who has gathered lots of attention for his Twitter campaign against Saudi government, said in his latest tweets that Commander-in-Chief of Egyptian […]
ET: LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday granted bail to an Ahmadi man alleged to have committed blasphemy. The case relates to an FIR lodged at Old Anarkali police station on February 24 under Sections 295B (defiling the Holy Quran) and 298C (an Ahmadi calling himself a Muslim) against […]
Global Post: The script of a 1983 speech aides drafted for Queen Elizabeth II to deliver if World War III broke out has been released among other declassified files from […]
Huff post: When FOX’s Lauren Green asked Reza Aslan why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus, she was biased. When Reza Aslan answered her, he was biased. When I watched the interview, I was biased. And when you read this article… well, you get the point. And on […]
Dawn.com: by Nadeem F. Paracha. In 1973, my paternal grandparents visited Makkah to perform the first of their two Hajj pilgrimages. With them were two of my grandmother’s sisters and their respective husbands. Upon reaching Jeddah, they hailed a taxi from the airport and headed for their designated hotel. The driver […]
Huff Post Healthy Living: Just a few simple habits can make the difference between a fit person and a couch potato, an everyday worker and the outrageously successful. That’s because those simple habits work. And these ultra-fit examples are proof. Fit People Don’t Diet More
rabwah.net: On July 11, the first day of Ramazan, a group of Sunnis beat up the Ahmedis and kicked them out of the place of worship, telling them not to […]
bps.org.uk: British Muslim women who wear the hijab feel generally better about their body image than those who don’t wear the hijab suggests research published in the British Journal of Psychology […]
latino.foxnews.com: MEXICO CITY – When Moroccan national Said Louahabi arrived in Mexico City in 1994, he and fellow Muslims had to attend religious services at the Pakistani embassy because there were no mosques or Islamic centers. “I started looking for Muslims and a mosque when I first arrived,” Louahabi, an […]