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.
By Liaquat Ali Khan, Founder, Legal Scholar Academy and Professor of Law Huff Post: Small-minded versions of Islam have fanaticized Pakistan – an antediluvian land with deep interfaith roots leavened with the teachings of Hindu Swamis, Buddhist Monks, Sikh Gurus, and Muslim Sufis – into a ghastly country. Stories are […]
NY Times: We Americans love children. Indeed, we love them so much that, on average, child care workers earn almost as much per hour ($10.33) as workers who care for animals ($10.82), according to a new studyfrom the University of California, Berkeley. We love them so much that only 38 percent of […]
By Luqman Ahmed: He is a Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada, currently based in Quebec City, Canada. He can be followed on twitter @luqman255. In light of the recent actions […]
Womensnewsnetwork.net: by Elahe Amani with Lys Anzia –– A woman nurse in Iran checks IV fluid for infants at the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran. Recent October 2013 protests by nurses from the hospital brought the needs for trained women medical workers to the attention of others after a shortage of […]
The NewYork Times: by SARA DINATALE, LAUREN D’AVOLIO and MARC SANTORA — Snow covered a street in south Buffalo on Wednesday. LANCASTER, N.Y. — A powerful snowstorm has swept across western New York, creating snow drifts as high as houses, trapping people in their homes and forcing hundreds of motorists to abandon their cars on […]
Lankaweb: by A. Abdul Aziz — According to our Press Department U.K., on 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. […]
Global Times: by Xie Wenting — Swamped by consumerism, young turn away from possessions Wang Zhe poses in front of his wardrobe, which only has about 30 items of clothing to meet all of his needs. Photo: Courtesy of Wang Zhe Wang Zhe sat in front of his wardrobe, trying […]
NY Times; UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations’ top human rights official called on the Muslim world to denounce the “monstrous” crimes of the extremist group that seeks to establish an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, calling its actions both a violation of international law and Islamic tenets. Zeid Ra’ad […]
Source: The Guardian By Fuad Nahdi, who is the founding editor of Q News, and runs the Radical Middle Way I hope my presence as the first Muslim to address the […]
Huff Post: Some moons ago, during perhaps the best of times, I fell in love with a country called Pakistan — and not only because I was born there. From biking on its streets under the shade of the mulberry trees to running out in the welcomed monsoon rain, from […]
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Telegraph: Two suspected Palestinian men armed with axes, knives and a pistol killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, Israeli police and emergency services said, the deadliest such attack in the city in years. The attack took place shortly after 7am in […]
theparliamentmagazine.eu: According to a report presented by the UK’s prince of Wales on 4 November, across the world, Christians remain the most persecuted religious minority, while some Muslim countries are sadly among those states with the most serious reported violations of religious freedom. Among these, Pakistan is rated as one […]
Published on Nov 17, 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our global and national history has shown a dangerous human tendency to isolate and push away others we see as mysterious. This mystery and ignorance of “the other” has prompted […]
theguardian: by Larry Elliott — Five countries including India, China and Russia account for 61% of all slavery, says Australia-based Walk Free Foundation The total number of people enslaved by region More than 35 million people around the world are trapped in a modern form of slavery, according to a […]
theguardian: by Melissa Davey — The book aspiring Isis militants most commonly order before taking off to Syria is Islam for Dummies, human rights activist Qanta Ahmed says Isis has ‘captured global imagination’ through a strong and well-produced online campaign, Qanta Ahmed says. Young Australians travelling overseas to take […]
Youtube: Published on Nov 16, 2014 http://www.alislam.org An audience with Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) with the media and special guests during a Peace Symposium held on […]
Source: The Telegraph By Rob Crilly, New York, and agencies Muslims discovered the Americas in the 12 century, nearly 300 years before Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage there, according […]
Womennewsnetwork.net: by Shiloh Sophia McCloud Lewis (WNN) Santa Rosa, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: It was when I began to have images of women from around the world who are suffering flash before my mind, that the reality of the state of the world started ‘sinking in’ after my trip to the […]
Dawn: Former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Z.A. Bhutto government (1971-77), Kausar Niazi, has been mistreated by history. by Nadeem F. Paracha Many local historians have charged him for influencing some of the Bhutto government’s many controversial policies, especially the one that supposedly ‘resolved the long standing Ahmadiyya question’. […]