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.
nationalinterest.org: Last month, militants murderednine foreign mountain climbers at a base camp on Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat peak. Many observers noted that it was the first attack of its kind. But in fact, one aspect of the attack—which received little news coverage—was depressingly familiar. This is because there was a tenth casualty—a […]
LAHORE: Ahmedis in Fatehpur, Gujrat district, have been banished from their own place of worship in Ramazan and fear that they will be deprived of the property by the local government and clerics. On July 11, the first day of Ramazan, a group of Sunnis beat up the Ahmedis and kicked them out […]
Business Insider: Rob Wile. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy. It’s taken a while for such a prominent Saudi to acknowledge this fact. But it’s been pretty clear to the rest of the world. In […]
Source: Dawn By Tahir Mehdi: He works with Punjab Lok Sujag, a research and advocacy group that has a primary interest in understanding governance and democracy. Our political discourse is dominated by two competing narratives of the recent history of Pakistan. Each claims to be ideologically rooted. The dominant one describes […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have added the name Muhammad, may peace be on him, to the title as the article is about him. Source: The Telegraph Calcutta: A messiah of […]
Huff Post: We’ve been hearing for years that fewer and fewer people are tying the knot, and a new study reveals just how much the marriage rate has declined in the last century. A new report released Thursday by Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Marriage and Family Research found […]
(Reuters) – Traditionally Catholic Ireland has allowed an atheist group to perform weddings this year for the first time, and the few people certified to celebrate them are overwhelmed by hundreds of […]
Huff Post: Faheem Younas: Who can decipher the mind of a terrorist? In the post 9/11 America, there is a dollar-spending, ink-spilling, competition between the government and the academia to […]
The New York Times: by Laurie Goodstein. In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an “area authority” overseeing the Church of Jesus […]
Global Post: Senior Palestinian and Israeli negotiators were due to meet in Washington, DC, on Monday for their first direct peace talks since 2010. Announcing the meeting Sunday, the United States said it […]
Rabwah.net: An Ahmadi SOLDIER who died fighting the Taliban in the Tirah Valley was buried in Rabwah with full military honors. Qaiser Naveed Bhatti, 24 of Chak 23 District Nankana died in a firefight with the the Taliban in Tirah Valley. His body was taken to his hometown by Captain Deedar […]
BBC news: Media in India are discussing Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s offer to return the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, after he was criticised for his remarks about controversial politician Narendra Modi. A noted economist, Mr Sen has said he does not want to see Mr Modi, the chief minister of […]
Jakarta Post: “I don’t want my friends to turn away from me when I tell them who I am,” said 13-year-old Ardan, not his real name, on Saturday during a story-telling event at the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) office in Central Jakarta. The boy, from an Ahmadi family, […]
Telegraph: ‘Circumcision is one of the oddities of the Royal Family’ It is one of the oddities of the Royal Family — shared by the majority of the English upper […]
Business Insider: Marc Lallanilla. It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away. It’s known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that’s heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland. But what causes the Hum, and […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. Promoted post: Book Review: The Final Blueprint for the 21st and 22nd Century The Telegraph: Calcutta: IQBAL’S […]
The Daily Times; COMMENT : The July 15, 2013 House of Lords ceremony — Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Baroness Flather recalled her joyful days in Lahore as a teenager. Her closest friends […]
enislamtoday.net: Some people who seek to be pious tend to underrate the value of beauty. They fail to recognize that beauty is an Islamic value. Allah intended for His Creation […]
Separation of Religion and State The First Principle to Eliminate Religious Violence and Build a Nation (Written by Shahid Khan) Principle of Intellectual Freedom or Separation of Religion and State Intellectual freedom is an essential principle followed by all developed countries. Without separating religion and state, a country cannot provide intellectual freedom […]
qz.com: Last week, the state-run China Daily ran a feel-good portrait of a Uighur Muslim family in the Xinjiang region in northwest China celebrating Ramadan, the holy month during which Muslims abstain from food and drink during daylight. “My high school has never made any demands as to whether the students observe the […]