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.
Daily Times: The fitna was started by Maulana Maududi; had it not been for him, Ziaul Haq and Bhutto, the Pakistanis would not have been belligerent towards fellow Pakistanis Khan’s statement that he has not asked the Ahmadiyya Muslims to vote for him is disturbing. Shouldn’t the future head of […]
* Minority community’s boycott due to separate electoral lists By Kashif Hussain LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the Ahmedis have not taken part in any election at any […]
Huff Post: by Rick Hamlin. The world is full of heartache, sorrow, disasters, anxiety, tragedies in-the-making, bad news both big and small. I believe in being informed. I’m just as happy as anyone to log on to one news site after another, but if it starts pulling me down, if […]
Gulf Daily News: by Aylin Kocaman. Research by the German Bertelsmann Foundation has revealed problems in Western societies regarding the perception of Islam. Many countries regard Islam as a threat […]
theranttmistressblog: A few weeks ago, I wrote about a ridiculous piece in the Daily Mail, where David Goodhart, a writer with a book to peddle, portrayed Merton, the borough where I live, […]
theguardian Europe’s fourth-biggest carrier says bright makeup ‘impairs visual integrity’, triggering concerns over creeping Islamisation Turkey‘s national airline has barred flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, triggering concerns among secular Turks that the country is becoming more Islamic. Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was […]
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 07 May 2013: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will boycott of Pakistan 2013 Elections. We look at the implications and impact of this on […]
IPSnewsnet: Zofeen Ibrahim: KARACHI , May 6 2013 (IPS) – Twenty-five-year-old Syed Hasan, a doctor practicing in a private hospital in Lahore, plans to spend most of May 11, Pakistan’s long-awaited Election Day, in bed. Members of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan say they have been disenfranchised by the country’s […]
BBC: ہ تشدد کے حوالے سے حساس شہر ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان میں مذہبی رواداری کا ایک ایسا واقعہ پیش آیا ہے جس میں ہندو جوان کو بچاتے ہوئے دو مسلمان بھی ہلاک ہو گئے۔ دونوں افراد میں سے ایک حافظ قران تھے اور دوسرے ڈیڑھ سال پہلے عیسایت کا مذہب […]
Russia Today: Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it. “This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run […]
Alislam.org: Press Release: Khalifa of Islam Greeted by Thousands of Americans Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Welcomes His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad on his first trip to the West Coast Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA welcomed the Khalifa of Islam yesterday, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to Bait ul Hameed Mosque in Chino, California […]
India Today: By Pervez Hoodbhoy Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th century philosopher and mathematician, observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”. His words could apply to Gujarat 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation-whether by birth or […]
Huff Post: Deepak Sarma. Another good question to ask concerns the propriety of appropriating or merely utilizing purportedly proprietary Hindu symbols, practices, clothing, images and so on. The question — basically, “Who owns Hinduism?” — revolves around a number of separate, but related questions: First, who speaks on behalf of, […]
With all due credits to Saatchi & Saatchi – recreated from their original video to fit a shorter time frame. The true colors of Pakistan. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150963027400388&set=vb.512920387&type=2&theater
by Martin Robbins (Guardian) Sam Harris is about as consistent as Glenn Greenwald is concise, which made their exchange of multi-thousand word cowpats last month particularly grueling reading. That’s a shame, […]
Epigraph: “Say ye: ‘We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob and his children, and what was given […]
Huff Post: Throughout my entire life, I have always been surrounded by others who share my Muslim faith: my very large Indian family, my friends from Connecticut, the thriving Muslim population at Georgetown and around Washington, D.C. For this reason, the biggest challenge for me while studying abroad in Rio […]
ET: DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline protesters in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday. Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said police used sound grenades, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at […]
NITICentral: Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community on Sunday announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on May 11 to register his or her protest on the discrimination against Ahmadis,” said Saleemuddin, the spokesman for the Jamaat Ahmadiya […]