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.
Youtube: Published on Nov 4, 2014 You Are Watching Off The Record – 4 November 2014 TalkShow on ARY News Subscribe For Off The Record 5 November 2014 TalkShow on ARY News Watch;
Posted by Salma Javid Khan Source: alislam.org/quran Putting plainly: The Holy Qur’an is God’s own message to his creation. God, in there, is communicating directly with the best of His creation i.e. […]
Russia Today: Two British women’s charities have cautioned ahead of landmark case in the Court of Appeal Wednesday that drinking alcohol when pregnant could become a criminal offense. If the […]
Alarabiya: France adopted Tuesday an anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate gave its final stamp […]
United Nations (CNN) — The United States vetoed Friday a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that while the United States agrees about “the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, […]
Russia Today: Moscow University’s robotic telescope has discovered a massive asteroid that could potentially hit Earth in the future. If such a collision happens, the explosion would be 1,000 more powerful the Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion in 2013. An automatic telescope installed in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, near the city of Kislovodsk, […]
Huff Post: This type of ignorance isn’t bliss. Americans have a tendency to overstate the number of Muslims living in the United States — and at least 13 other countries are dealing with the same misconception. Only 1% of America’s more than 319 million residents are Muslim, according to the […]
theguardian: by Mark Williamson — Caring for someone else can boost your happiness. We’re constantly bombarded with messages about what makes for a good life. Advertisers tell us it comes from owning and consuming their products. The media associate it with wealth, beauty or fame. And politicians claim that […]
msnbc.com: by Alex Seitz-Wald — Gubernatorial Democratic candidate and Texas State Senator Wendy Davis speaks about a recent Supreme Court ruling on easing HB2, a Texas state abortion law, on Oct. 16, 2014. The only time President Obama meaningfully talked about women during his speech to the 2012 Democratic National […]
Source: The Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani The most important reason why it is not supposed to be a theocratic constitution is because it seeks to enable Muslims to […]
Muslimsforhumanity: Young Muslims Raise Thousands For Poppy Appeal Date: October 31, 2014 Author: Asif Javed Royal British Legion has marked the 1st of November 2014 as “The Ahmadiyya Muslim Poppy Appeal Day” […]
(Reuters) – Reports of anti-Muslim harassment in Canada have risen, Muslim organizations say, after attacks last week in which two soldiers were killed by people authorities say were inspired by the militant group Islamic State. The National Council of Canadian Muslims said it has seen a tenfold increase in reports […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — The most important reason why it is not supposed to be a theocratic constitution is because it seeks to enable Muslims to live according to Islam and not force them to live according to Islam. Very few lawyers, jurists and members of the […]
Huff Post: by Alana Horowitz — “There is nothing more that a woman loves to hear than how pretty she is,” said a man on television in 2014. CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield hosted a segment on Sunday discussing a video of awoman enduring hours of catcalling in New York City that went […]
Haaretz: The conversion reform bill, which reaches the cabinet for approval on Sunday, contains a paradox. Three political parties, most of whose voters are secular, are promoting a new procedure for Orthodox conversion, against strong opposition from the ultra-Orthodox parties. Supporters portray the initiative as a masterpiece of liberalism against the ossified […]
guardian: Over in the vicarage, my teenage girls are tearing the place down getting ready for Halloween. The younger one is thinking about a zombie bride look and has drawn […]
Dawn: Is suicide bombing justified? Can women lead prayers? Is there a feminist interpretation of Islam? These are some of the questions Muslims living in the West often face. They […]
ET: NEW YORK: Pakistani academics based in the United States have dismissed as draconian a Higher Education Commission (HEC) circular calling for heads of public and private degree awarding institutions to impose limits on formal or informal discussions. The circular —issued on October 28 with signatures of Prof Dr Mansoor Akbar […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: The Islamic State organisation is starting to attract the attention of radicals in Pakistan and Afghanistan, long a cradle for militancy, unnerving authorities who fear a potential violent contagion. Far from the militants’ self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, the name of IS has cropped up several times in […]
thenewstribe.com — KARACHI: At least five commanders of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) entered in Pakistan from Australia, the country’s intelligence agencies revealed ISIS activities in a high-level meeting in Karachi today, November 1. According to the agencies report, the large quantity of gold has also been transferred […]