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.
London, 18 March, (Asiantribune.com): Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has expressed that it, “continues to be deeply concerned about the violations of freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression in Burma, amid growing religious intolerance, as illustrated by two current cases of “religious defamation.” In a press release Christian […]
ET: Social networking giant Facebook censored 54 posts in Pakistan on the request of the government between July and December 2014, as it said it saw a decline in the number of requests made from Pakistan. In its latest bi-annual transparency report on requests made by governments to the social […]
newsandstar.co.uk: A piece of religious history has been restored by archivists in Carlisle. The team at Cumbria County Council’s city-based archive services have returned architectural drawings for one of the […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Members of opposition and treasury benches in the National Assembly on Monday said religious minorities are feeling insecure in the country due to the deteriorating law and order situation. Commenting in the National Assembly regarding the terrorist attacks on churches in Lahore, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Syed […]
Washington Post: Americans tend to pick and choose who should be afforded civil liberties to some degree, a centuries-old issue that has flared up once again after a video of racist chants by University of Oklahoma fraternity brothers went viral. The university’s president David Boren last week expelled two students filmed making the racist chants. […]
cnbc.com: Sir Elton John disagrees with a bill in Georgia that would allow individuals and businesses to use their religious beliefs to discriminate against certain groups of people, including gay residents. The English pop star, a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide, wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution […]
aglimpseoflondon.com: Islam just as in Christianity has many sects. Here in London the largest mosque in Western Europe is that of the Ahmadiyya sect. With millions of followers and in […]
By MARIO LEDWITH FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 18:45 EST, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 13:13 EST, 4 January 2013 Mailonline: A collection of manuscripts from caves in Afghanistan has provided the first evidence of Jewish communities living in the devoutly Muslim country 1,000 years ago. The cache of Hebrew […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad warns of potential global impact of youth radicalisation On 14 March 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat […]
“The terrorist attacks on two churches in Lahore this morning, resulting in the loss of innocent lives and scores of seriously injured, is another instance of violence aimed at innocent victims. Those responsible for the attacks must be brought to justice. It is essential that Pakistani authorities take swift action against all […]
Aljazeera: The Italian government has moved to block new building regulations for Lombardy, the country’s most populous region, which would make it virtually impossible to build any new mosques there, officials said. The regulations, which have become known as “anti-mosque” laws, were approved by the right-wing dominated regional council at the end […]
Daily Times: WAH CANTT: The archaeologists have made unique and rare discovery of a huge statue depicting “death scene of Buddha”, which is biggest ever in the archaeological history of Gandhara besides making another remarkable discovery of “image of Buddha with double halos”, never before found in history, during excavations […]
Middle East News: How does the prohibition of burqa dress fit in with pluralism, and does it stem from an undercurrent of prejudice? Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which itrejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing […]
Patheos.com: March 13, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious anti-theist Richard Dawkins happily returned to spreading falsehood and hatred of Islam, tweeting, “Alas, criminal individual killers exist. But there’s only 1 ideology now that preaches the […]
thedeansreport.com/: In the summer before I started 8th grade, there was a conflict in the Middle East. Tension was rising as people in the Gaza Strip were trying to save themselves from Israeli rocket attacks. They were aimed at Hamas, a Palestinian organization that had been firing missiles at Israel. I […]
LONDON, March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — An Islamic leader has backed greater monitoring and regulation of social media and internet traffic in the war against extremism. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
ght-wing media outlet Israel National News published an opinion piece Tuesday calling on Israel to launch nuclear bombs at Iran and Germany, only days after the outlet came under fire for publishing a piece accusing a war widow of killing her husband over her pro-peace views. In the opinion article published Tuesday, […]
Source: The Hindu By Muhammad Ali March 14, 2015 A month ago, he called himself Shyam Singh. Now he declares himself “Azad” (liberated). The symbolic name not only sums up […]
theguardian — Reversal of constitutional court’s 2003 ruling hailed as ‘good day for religious freedom Pegida demonstration in Dresden. Berlin daily Taz warned the anti-Islam protest group would seize on the ruling to argue Europe was being taken over by Islam Female Muslim teachers in Germany may wear headscarves in class […]
Source: Press Release On 7 March 2015, Mrs Shadiye Heydari, Member of Sweden’s National Parliament (Sveriges Riksdag), visited the Fazl Mosque in London where she was granted an audience with […]