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.
NY times: LONDON — Only a week ago, the Red Mosque seemed a nearly untouchable bastion of Islamist extremism in Pakistan, a notorious seminary in central Islamabad known for producing radicalized, and sometimes heavily armed, graduates. On Friday evening, though, the tables were turned when hundreds of angry protesters stood at […]
Dawn.com: by Pervez Hoodbhoy — THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that can bridge the deep divides within. In another few days this episode of 134 dead […]
tulsaworld.com: Each time I see a news headline with a link between Islam and terrorism my heart sinks. As I watched and read about the hostage situation in Sydney, I […]
The Independent: The grief has given way to rage. Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back. In the tribal areas of North Waziristan and Khyber along the Afghan border, Pakistani jets strafed militant targets […]
Patheos.com: By Qasim Rashid Today in Pakistan at least 132 sets of parents will remember this Jummah as their first Jummah without their precious child. This Jummah they will be forced to remember the crushing weight of small coffins. I left Peshawar in the 1980s, not long after Dictator Zia […]
allafrica.com: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Nigeria is set to hold its 63rd annual conference, (Jalsa Salana), 2014. The event will be held at the Jamia Ahmadiyya (Ahmadiyya Missionary Training Center ) Ilaro- Owode road, Ilaro ,Ogun state. According to a release signed by Qasim Akinreti, Chairman National publicity committee and […]
theguardian: by Jonathan Freedland — Pope Francis: ‘When it comes to moral authority, he’s the top man in the world. Now that Mandela’s dead, who else is there?’ Stalin had quite a knack for the soundbite. “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a […]
The Washington Post — (RNS) The massacre of 145 people, nearly all of them children, at a Pakistani school on Tuesday (Dec. 16) is almost too horrible for adults to talk about, much less children. But what if your Muslim child brings it up? What if you want to open […]
firstpost.com: Terrorist massacres of the kind Peshawar saw will end only when Pakistan separates religion and politics, a Pakistani academic said in comments published on Friday. Aasim Sajnjad Akhtar also faulted the tendency in Pakistan to gloss over the military’s patronage of the politics of jihad, saying it is this […]
Source: scholar.princeton.edu By Prof. Atif Mian: There is a line separating man from God that should never be crossed. For when it is, hell breaks loose. We witnessed hell today […]
Washington Post: Earlier this week, authorities in Tehran unveiled a monument to slain Iranian Jewish soldiers who died during the country’s long and bitter war with Iraq between 1980 and 1988. Death tolls for the hideous conflict differ, but casualty counts usually reach more than 1 million for both countries. A public ceremony marked the […]
apnahub.ca — Canadians and people all over the world are expressing shock as the Pakistani city of Peshawar began burying its dead after an attack at a school that killed at least 132 children and nine staff. Emotional scenes were reported by Pakistani and International media, with reactions from world […]
ABC News: by Alexandra Kirk — NICK GRIMM: It was former prime minister John Howard who took on the gun lobby in 1996 in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, first announcing and then clinching an agreement with the states for nationwide gun law reforms.Well, almost 20 years on […]
theguardian: by Ben Doherty — Those who suffer most from Islamist extremism are not people in rich western nations, but other poor Muslims. This is the fundamental truth that obliterates the false cloak of righteousness so ostentatiously donned by Islamist jihadists: the very people these misguided men and women claim […]
Telegraph: Two men have been arrested following a storm over extremists handing out leaflets in London’s Oxford Street urging Britons to join Isil. The men, both from Luton, were arrested […]
India Express: Over the last few decades, Pakistanis have become accustomed to terrorists, as well as terrorism. But the Taliban’s slaughter of schoolchildren in Peshawar on Tuesday was an unprecedented act of savagery. It has caused grief and generated outrage that earlier attacks on hotels, mosques, shrines and even the […]
Rabwah Times: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack on Peshawar Government schools. Reports indicate at least 150 children have been killed and scores more injured. The Community mourns with the families and friends of those afflicted by this horrible atrocity. May God give them strength, […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:108) Written for The Muslims Times by Dr. Abdul Alim, Editor for […]
Newsweek: by A Majeed — A SURVIVOR OF THE TALIBAN ATTACK ON THE ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PESHAWAR RECALLS THE TERRIFYING ORDEAL. A teenage survivor of Tuesday’s Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar has described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents […]
ET: At least 120 people were killed when unidentified armed men opened fire on a private school in Peshawar on Tuesday, Express News reported. The Army Public School is located on Warsak Road near Army Housing Colony and a medical school. 5:04pm Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif assures K-P CM of complete assistance in […]