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: The Jhang of Abdul Salam by Hasan Miraj The 16th day of April 1853 is special in the Indian history. The day was a public holiday. At 3:30 pm, as the 21 guns roared together, the first train carrying Lady Falkland, wife of Governor of Bombay, along with 400 […]
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He (Allah) reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible and ineffable, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:104) Karen Armstrong, acclaimed author and religious scholar, speaks […]
Belief: by Melody Moezzi. (CNN) – I wasn’t surprised by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent statement about a “problem within Islam.” It’s not as though I’ve never heard anything like it before. I hear it all the time. Still, his words – in response to a recent attack in London that left a British […]
Huffington Post: By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Frederick Douglass, whose seven-foot bronze statue was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday (June 19), is known as the father of the civil rights movement. But the 19th-century abolitionist and former slave was also a licensed preacher. “We do […]
NY Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militant bombings in Pakistan killed dozens of people across the country on Sunday in attacks that overshadowed a visit by the British prime minister and […]
Dawn: Patwari, thana and Titanic Kunwar Idris Published 2013-07-01 08:12:44 IT is customary for our leaders to hold the patwari and thana culture responsible for the indignities suffered by the people. Every politician pledges to put an end to it. The so-called culture persists, nevertheless. The explanation is simple. […]
Business Insider: by Dina Spector Honeybees don’t just produce honey: The hard-working insect is also fundamental to the world’s food supply. One-third of the food we eat depends on insect pollination, mostly by honeybees that are raised and managed by beekeepers. The value of insect pollinators on world agricultural production, which accounts […]
Inquirer: JOHANNESBURG— As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa’s national broadcaster. Mandela’s oldest daughter, Makaziwe, and 15 other family members have pressed a court application to get […]
Huff Post: Brendan Farrington. “The problem is it’s not a fairy tale,” Hovind said. “We definitely have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” STARKE, Fla. — A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the […]
Rawal TV: Bilatakalluf with Tahir Gora Ep32 – Tarek Fatah on the Dilemma of Pakistan We can have our differences with Tarek and certainly his ignorance of Islam and its history. In this episode he comes out perhaps as the most clear non ahmadi Muslim who presents the role of […]
(Reuters) – Pakistani taxi driver Muhammad Zafeer says he has to look over his shoulder when he goes to pray in Athens, where racist attackers have targeted several of the […]
Pakistantoday: ASHER JOHNFriday, 28 Jun 2013 10:45 pm | Comments (19) LAHORE – Teenage blasphemy accused Rimsha Masih and her family have been granted religious asylum in Canada, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday. Rimsha’s lawyer Tahir Naveed Chaudhry told Pakistan Today that the family comprising Rimsha, her three sisters and a brother, and parents had been moved […]
islamforwest.org: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Indian as well as Western scholars have now accepted the period between 3200 and 3100 BC as the period in which […]
Lancaster.com: It’s a long road from India’s peace-preaching 1800s villager, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to 9/11. Reformist Ahmadiyya Muslim followers, gathering in Harrisburg this weekend for the fourth year in a row, say they want to get back to the tolerant roots of their religion. “The word Islam means peace,” said […]
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Watch sessions live in high definition in Alislam.org Day one coverage is available in Youtube now. Source of News: Pennlive.com: by Emily Previti. The most important activities offered during the entire three-day affair probably are the facilitated group discussions about the prophet Muhammad, the foundations of Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
President Aquino builds trust by acknowledging a historic massacre of Muslims. ENLARGE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels stand guard as their chief Murad Ebrahim (not pictured) holds a press conference inside camp on the southern island of Mindanao in October 2012. A framework agreement signed by President Benigno Aquino […]
ET: LAHORE: Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row whose blasphemy conviction was decried as unjust by slain former governor Salmaan Taseer, faces a wait of at least another two years behind bars before her appeal is likely to come up before the Lahore High Court. Bibi, 45, has […]
On a cloudy May afternoon, terror struck in the UK. Justifying his barbaric act of murdering a British soldier, the British born Nigerian Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected […]
The Muslim Times has changed the original title slightly which is below Christians happier than atheists – Study on Twitter (CNN) – Christians tweet from the heart, atheists from the head, […]