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Dr. Abdul Alim
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.
Pakistan’s ‘Separate But Equal’ Elections
Huff Post: by Dr. Faheem Younus. On May 11, the world’s second most populous Muslim country, Pakistan, marked a historic election. The country’s 66-year history is marred by the presence of martial laws and never before has one elected government replaced another. As Pakistanis rushed to the polling stations to cast […]
West pushing Bangladesh to Wahhabism
Russia Today: Afshin Rattansi Dreadful conditions for workers in factories producing goods for the West, and plans for the US Seventh Fleet’s relocation make fertile ground for anti-Americanism in Bangladesh, which […]
Picture of the Day-Crooked Forest
The Crooked Forest is located right outside of Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland. The grove contains approximately 400 pine trees with bent trunks. They were planted sometime in 1939, but why or who made them crooked is unknown.
Pakistan: How not to hold a free and fair election
Global Post: KARACHI, Pakistan — Election day is over. Nawaz Sharif’s PMLN party has grabbed the most seats and he’s poised to become the nation’s newest prime minister. The Election Commission of Pakistan claimed the day was a success for the most part, but free and fair elections were not held […]
Nigeria’s Islamists staging bolder, deadlier comeback
Daily Times: After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria’s northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Using porous borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the desolate […]
Pakistan’s Lost Vote: The Ahmadiyya Muslims
the revealer: By Saba Imtiaz The elections in Pakistan—a landmark in Pakistan’s history, representing the first transfer of power from one democratically elected government to the next—are over. For many voters, this was the first time they daubed their fingers in election ink, queued up outside polling stations in the […]
PAKISTAN: A Historical Overview of Blasphemy Laws
Asian Human Rights Commission. The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about the research based report on historical overview of Blasphemy laws in Pakistan the Blasphemy published by Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), Islamabad. The research was compiled by Mr. Nafees Muhammad, a writer and research […]
Best Religious Books of 2011: HuffPost Religion’s Top 11
Hundreds of religion books come across the HuffPost Religion desk each year. Stacked in mountains next to our computers, they remind us of the sacred wisdom, religious leadership and academic rigor that so many women and men have shared with us. This year was an especially rich, and we were […]
Clamoring for the Khalifa: The Wall Street Journal Reports on Visit of Khalifa of Islam- A Muslim Pope
Wall Street Journal: CHINO, Calif.—This week, thousands of families arrayed in their colorful best are crowding into a sprawling mosque set among the golden hills of this old agricultural community east of Los Angeles. Some have come from across the country, and some from as far as Ghana. A few […]
Mother-daughter team up to further mom’s education
newsobserver.com: by Mandy Locke. CARY — When Salma Azam graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sunday, her degree holds a delicate promise abided by a woman and her mother. In Salma’s senior year in high school, she felt the weight of her mother’s long-delayed dream of […]
List of Mahdi Claimants Since the Advent of Islam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Muslim eschatology, the Mahdi is a Messianic figure who, it is believed, will appear on Earth before the Day of Judgment and, alongside Jesus, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny. People claiming to be the Mahdi have appeared across the Muslim world – in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East – and throughout history […]
Op Ed: The Hindu: Democracy wins, Federation loses- Results of Elections 2013
The Hindu: Farahnaz Isphahani: While Nawaz Sharif has won the election decisively, he faces the challenge of reaching out beyond his main base in Punjab to the rest of Pakistan Pakistan achieved a historic landmark with the completion of its five-year term by the civilian coalition government led by the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community holds unique beliefs
Inland Valley-Daily Bulletin: Canan Tasci, Staff Writer The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community began on March 23, 1889 by the 19th-century Indian-born Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.It is the only Islamic organization to believe the long-awaited Messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, who is the fifth and current […]
Why Life Goes Faster as You Grow Older
Healthy Living: by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. Do you have the sense that life is speeding up the older you get? If so, you’re not alone. Can there be a reason for this perception? I’ve discovered three scientific theories that shine a little light on this mysterious experience. 1. The […]
Is Religion the Cause of Most Wars?
Huff Post: Rabbi Alan Lurie: There are many common misconceptions about religion that are often taken as unquestioned facts, such as the idea that religious people are inherently anti-science, that a literal reading of holy texts is the “true” religious stance, that faith is incompatible with reason, and that all […]
Is Atheism Only for the Upper Class?
Huff Post: By Daniel Cox: The religiously unaffiliated are an increasingly important part of the American religious and cultural landscape. They account for nearly 1-in-5 American adults, and although they […]
Reflections On Pakistan
Huff Post: by Alan Jones. Pakistan is in the news – not least because of the violence leading up to the elections. H.L Mencken told us that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” Sometimes something happens and we’re hit between the eyes […]
Elections 2013 Results: The False Choice and Ominous Developments for Minorities and the Country
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim: In the hyper righteous hype before the current elections, the chorus of political experts, anchor analysts and pseudo liberal moralists kept exhorting the nation to go to vote and prove that the nation stands united against Taliban. Well the nation went to vote in […]
How the Western World Really Lost God?
Has the Western world lost God? Author Mary Eberstadt thinks so and she takes a fresh approach to the question in her book, How the West Really Lost God. It’s long […]