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.
Wikleaks: New Delhi, June 27: How much of an influence does Iran have over the Sufi Muslims in India? A recent wikileaks cable suggested that Saudi Arabia wanted to match Iran’s influence over India. Read more: Wahabism, Terrorism and the 10 billion dollar India funding The Shia community says that […]
theguardian — Copy of William Tyndale translation expected to fetch £35,000 at Sotheby’s, 50 years after current owner bought it for 25 shillings in a secondhand bookshop The current owner bought the edition, which was printed in 1537, for 25 shillings. A rare copy of the first Bible to be […]
Huff Post: Perhaps one of the strongest arguments for why Hinduism needs to be understood as a truly global religion is its nearly 200-year presence in South Africa, and its survival in the country despite systemic discrimination against Hindus prior to the end of Apartheid. To be sure, the only […]
Huff Post: by Priscilla Frank — Yes, there are a lot of differences separating Miss Muslimah, a Muslim beauty pageant in Yogakarta, Indonesia, from those broadcast across the Western world. Instead of bathing suits there are headscarfs, competitors pray five times a day, and the winner is chosen by a […]
Guardian: The anti-Muslim drumbeat has become deafening across the western world. As images of atrocities by the jihadi terror group Isis multiply online, and a steady trickle of young Europeans […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaedacarried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants. But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may […]
Women are making major strides in the military, rising to leadership positions and breaking boundaries like never before. But there’s still a scary undercurrent of sexism and sexual assault, and it starts early, according to a new op-ed in the New York Times. Ashley Anderson and Elizabeth Deutsch, two Yale […]
Patheos.com: August 1, 2011 by Wajahat Ali 26 Comments When Ramadan-ing, it’s encouraged to have a Ramadan State of Mind. It’s a state of mind and state of body that […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The world appears to be a more dangerous place since September 11, 2001, more so than any time […]
Aljazeera: This is the second story in a two-part series about blasphemy in Pakistan. The first part, about the case of the first woman on death row for blasphemy in that country, is available here. KOT RADHA KISHAN, Pakistan — Walking through the quiet, empty streets of Chak 59, patrolled […]
Canberrra Times: Canberra’s Muslim community has had its hopes for a new mosque at Hume dashed after the ACT government advised against the site it raised as an option in January. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association had agreed to the larger “industrial area” site in January to avoid antagonising traders in […]
Huff Post: by Catherine Russell — Recently Jack Ma called women executives “the secret sauce” of his company Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. His sentiment is one that research proves over and over again. Women are powerful participants in the economy, whether they are consumers, workers or entrepreneurs. The more […]
theguardian: by Simon Lewis — Influential group of monks also plans to encourage people to vote for candidates who ‘will not let our race and religion disappear’ in this year’s elections An influential group of Buddhist monks in Burma is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign […]
ScienceDaily — Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research that periodically adopting a diet that mimics the effects of fasting may yield a wide range of health benefits. Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research led by USC’s Valter Longo […]
Tribune: THE HAGUE: Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders claimed Saturday that the state broadcaster ‘sabotaged’ his planned airing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on television. “Sabotage by the NOS […]
Christian Post; As Pakistani lawmakers consider legislation to reform the nation’s corrupt blasphemy laws, Islamic clerics are bashing the government for even considering such an option, and are calling for the release of the murderer of the Punjab governor who advocated for blasphemy reform in 2011. Asia News reports that 10 […]
Washington Post: Police are investigating the fatal shooting of nine African Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., as a hate crime committed by a white man. Unfortunately, it’s not a unique event in American history. Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned andbombed them […]
wikileaks: On Monday, Saudi Arabia celebrated the beheading of its 100th prisoner this year. The story was nowhere to be seen on Arab media despite the story’s circulation on wire services. Even international media was relatively mute about this milestone compared to what it might have been if it had […]
Source: The Guardian: By Semanur Karaman With more female MPs than ever before and the success of a political party that supports women, Turkey is on the threshold of a […]
International Herald Tribune: by Justin Rowlatt — From BBC News It is a bizarre image: cops demanding mug-shots of cows rather than crooks. But that’s what officers in the city of Malegaon in Maharashtra, one of India’s most populous states, are doing in an attempt to enforce its new beef […]