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.
ABS-CBN — MANILA (UPDATED) – Typhoon Ruby (international name Hagupit) has left at least 8 people dead in the Visayas, authorities said late Sunday night. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said two people in Iloilo — Thea Rojo from Balasan and Ernesto Baylon from Estancia — […]
http://felixonline.co.uk/This year, the true face of Islamic Caliphate has been obscured by the smoke rising from Iraq. Kindled by the horrific actions of militant extremist group ISIS, the conflict there […]
Inc.com: by Jeff Haden — Stay at your mental and emotional best by avoiding a few common habits and beliefs. Possibly you’ve stopped paying attention. Or possibly you’ve fallen into bad habits. Or possibly you’ve grown complacent. Whatever the reasons, you’re now compromising, settling, or flying on unhappy autopilot. Remarkably successful people […]
Loonwatch: It’s not just Wilders, but other members of his PVV party who make grotesque statements about Islam and Muslims that should have no place in a 21st century pluralistic […]
Epigraph: Allah has created the heavens without any pillars that you can see, and He has placed in the earth firm mountains that it may not quake with you, and […]
thetablet.co.uk: Atheists and rationalists often like to call themselves ‘humanists’. But a report published this week argues that the concept is rooted in Christianity and, deprived of its roots, it cannot thrive When St Paul spoke to the Athenians, he began by noting the things they knew that they did […]
Source: The Guardian Government of Andalusia says Diocese of Córdoba is ignoring site’s history as a place of worship for Muslims and Christians Inscriptions from the Qur’an share space with […]
thenation.com: This is the most dangerous time for Russian-US relations since the Cuban missile crisis, according to Stephen Cohen. When Cohen joined The Young Turks this week, he explained that we are living through a new Cold War, and that those who deny it are the people who “got us into it […]
Daily Mail: A Lord Mayor walked out of an Islamic charity lunch after discovering that he would have to be segregated from his female consort. Labour councillor John Thomas, 70, […]
Huff Post: by Paul Brandies Raushenbush — “Do you think the Surgeon General is behind it?” Sean joked with me this morning, “I mean there were cigarettes and cigarillos involved in both so maybe they just really don’t want us to smoke.” Sean’s attempt at humor masked the deep pain he is […]
Guardian: Is there a place for ethics and morality in the global economy? Should we continue to rely on governments to tweak at the margins of financial regulation, or is […]
Strengthening families is a subject which is one of the core issues of the contemporary world. Hundreds and thousands families are breaking every year around the world. Lack of stable […]
Forbes: by Denise Restuari — What are successful women in their thirties thinking, doing and saying? For my Forbes eBook,Their Roaring Thirties, I interviewed over 100 women who are navigating through a decade that is sandwiched between millennial superstars and women at the top –women who are too old to […]
abc.net: by Ursula Malone — One of the last remaining synagogues in western Sydney could be given a new lease of life as a mosque. PHOTO: Rabbi Samuel Tov-Lev is uncomfortable with the prospect of the synagogue becoming a place of worship for another religion. (ABC) The Strathfield War Memorial […]
Market watch: MOSCOW — Striking a defiant tone, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of provoking a crisis in Ukraine and using sanctions to try to constrain […]
The Nation: by Zoe Carpenter — Shortly before 2 in the afternoon on Sunday, more than a dozen people walked onto an interstate near the Capitol in Washington and formed a human chain. Eight lanes of traffic came to halt. During rush hour the next morning, protestors closed down the […]
Global Post: It’s been a long year for humanity. There’s been Ebola, the ongoing Syrian civil war, the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Gaza war, Boko Haram, the disappearance and probable murder of 43 students in Mexico, and more. We […]
Dawn: NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist premier Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a government minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has caused uproar in parliament. India’s upper house has been paralysed by opposition protests since Niranjan Jyoti told a crowd at a campaign rally on […]
Spirit, Science and Metaphysics: by Steven Bankarz — We are becoming literal gods, and we are going to explore some of the hard peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support this claim. In 1000 years from now, we will look like petty cavemen in our current physical and mental state compared to […]
Huff Post: by Guilia Belardelli — Empathy, love, respect, equality: these are the common denominators which caused the leaders of the world’s major religions to sign a declaration committed to the elimination of slavery and human trafficking by the year 2020 today at the Vatican. The catalyst behind this meeting, […]