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.
hereandnow.wbur.org: Since the U.S. announced its plan last month to conduct airstrikes against the group that calls itself the Islamic State, the consensus among Western politicians has been that the group is not Islamic, nor is it a state. President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and former Secretary of […]
CNN: Marc Lamont Hill and Ben Ferguson join “CNN Tonight” to discuss the perceived connection between Islam and violence. More:
Huff Post: As the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa shows, the importance of reducing inequality could not be more clear. The battle against the virus is a fight on many fronts — human lives and health foremost among them. But the fight against Ebola is also a […]
100 Laws Worthy of Repeal: A report by Centre for Civil Society, Macro/Finance Group at NIPFP and Vidhi Legal Centre, September 2014. Download PDF ~ 1.17 MB Download Press release For rule of law to operate, laws must be precise, principles-based, well-written, well-coded and should stand the test of time. The Indian approach […]
AllAfrica.com: by Macaulay Sombai — The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Liberia says that Islam does not allow any Muslim to bath another Muslim friend or relative who die from diseases like Ebola before burial. Imam Naveed Ahmad Aadil emphasized that dead body as a whole contain more […]
Yahoo.com: Washington (AFP) – The White House delivered an extraordinary public rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after he said US criticism of Israeli settlement building ran counter to “American values.” It was another turn for the worse in the tense relationship between President Barack Obama’s administration and […]
Guardian: Eleven Nobel laureates will pool their clout to sound a warning, declaring that mankind is living beyond its means and darkening its future. At a conference in Hong Kong […]
Telegraph: Qatar and Saudi Arabia have ignited a “time bomb” by funding the global spread of radical Islam, according to a former commander of British forces in Iraq. General Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia […]
BBC.com: by James Gallagher — Edvard Moser, John O’Keefe and May-Britt Moser share the Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain’s “GPS system”. UK-based researcher Prof John O’Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the […]
by Sarah Whyte — Christmas Island: A report has shown 80 per cent of paediatricians believe offshore processing of children constitutes abuse. Christmas Island: A report has shown 80 per cent of paediatricians believe offshore processing of children constitutes abuse. Photo: James Brickwood Doctors have warned that a royal commission […]
The New York Times: by C. J. CHIVERS — In its campaign across northern Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State has been using ammunition from the United States and other countries that have been supporting the regional security forces fighting the group, according to new field data gathered by a […]
Published on Oct 3, 2014 MUSLIM HATE IN AUSTRALIA | SOCIAL EXPERIMENT This Social Experiment is proof that hate against Muslims is not welcome in Australia. Almost every person interfered […]
Russia Today: Fear of extremism has led to Austria having drafted amendments to a 102-year-old law on Islam. Muslim organizations are to be banned from being financed from abroad, while […]
Dawn Op-Ed: THE sorry tale of Pakistan’s abysmal performance in practically all global development and welfare indicators is equalled, perhaps, only by the state’s stubborn, almost criminal, refusal to undertake the task at hand. Nothing, it seems can bestir the administrators of this country, regardless of whichever party is in […]
Russia Today: US Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleging that the leader allowed foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State to cross into Syria. Erdogan was outraged over the remark. READ MORE: Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS […]
thewrap.com: “Your argument is, ‘You know, black people, they shoot each other,’” Affleck tells the “Real Time” host Ben Affleck and Bill Maher engaged in a heated debate over the nature of Islam on Friday evening’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” “It’s the only religion that acts like the mafia — […]
A seminal book on the Hindu temples of Pakistan should be read by all Pakistanis. Kataas Raj Journalist Reema Abbasi and photographer Madiha Aijaz have done a remarkable job of travelling across the length of Pakistan and documenting the state of Hindu temples. The regions that comprise Pakistan are central […]
theguardian: by Nabila Ramdani — Teenage angst can cause all kinds of unfortunate behaviour, but when schoolgirls tell their parents they want to join the fight in Syria and Iraq, then society has a serious problem. Alarmingly, this is increasingly happening in France, as young Muslims express their desire for jihad. […]
theguardian: by Faiza Zerouala — Every day Meryem Belmokhtar turns her tidy sitting-room into a workshop. She lays out the equipment on the table, puts on rubber gloves and dips into various jars to make up 250g bags of sweets. Each packet is marked with her logo, featuring a stick […]
Posted by Rafiq A. Tschannen Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one […]