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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.

Al Bakistanis and the stupid look

Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — For the longest time, we refused to accept that the Taliban were behind the attacks on our cities, schools and mosques. Instead, we blamed India, the US and countless other faceless enemies. A more civilised and thinking nation would have corrected their course […]

An open letter to Geo TV

Daily Times: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — You remember well that the last time your host Mr Amir Liaquat promoted anti-Ahmedi hate speech on your forum in September of 2008, two prominent Ahmedi leaders were gunned down within 48 hours. You have done it again. Yet another murder (a third) […]

UN urges Pakistan to halt executions

ET: UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon is pressing Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium on the death penalty the government lifted in terror cases following the brutal attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. Ban spoke with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday to express his condolences after […]