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.
Dawn.com: by Faisal Bari — Ahmadis have been hounded out of jobs; they have been booked for ‘preaching’ their religion; they have been asked to remove Quranic verses from their places of worship; some have been denied burial space in graveyards. A fellow citizen and a friend, a Christian by […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Amaar Ahmad, Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Virgina Tech In this day and age, fortunately we also hear voices of reason that invite all nations towards peace. His […]
yahoo.com: Former Florida Rep. Allen West declared President Obama an Islamist who is intentionally working against the security of the United States. “The only plausible explanation for many actions taken by President Obama and his administration is that they are working counter to the security of the United States of […]
Huff Post: With the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Dominion of Pakistan came into existence on Aug. 14, 1947. The valiant and astute Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the minority Muslim community of United India to the fulfillment of its dream for a separate homeland. The basis for the very […]
BBC.co.uk: by Catrin Nye and Athar Ahmad — When the extremist group Isis (now known as Islamic State or IS) declared a caliphate taking in parts of Syria and Iraq it reignited a debate over the role of an Islamic state. For many a caliphate is a political leadership, others […]
zerohedge.com: The US is clearly now pushing Russia towards war. But if you read the signs correctly, Russia has been preparing for exactly this outcome for many years. Out of several reasons that US power brokers specifically — but western power brokers more generally — are deeply unhappy with Russia […]
BBC: DURATION: 28:00 When the extremist group Isis declared a Caliphate taking in parts of Syria and Iraq they reignited a debate over the role of an Islamic State. The […]
The Express Tribune: by Ayesha Siddiqa — As the state celebrates its 67th birthday, there is an absence of a natural sense of exaltation. The sense of weariness is not due to incessant roadblocks, temporary fuel shortage and uncertainty about how the government-opposition conflict will unfold. It is also not because people […]
Telegrapgh.co.uk: by Adam Walker — For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents. For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it […]
Huff Post: by Fr. Peter-Michael Preble — I try not to choose sides especially in events that do not directly involve me or events that are so complex I do not understand them. Sometimes, however, we are forced to take sides but if we do I hope we have all […]
Huff Post: by Kathleen Corriveau — Some media reports about our research have said, on the basis of these results, that religious children cannot tell fact from fiction. We doubt such a conclusion is warranted. Our interpretation is different. Religious children are encouraged to think that miracles are possible — […]
ET: VATICAN CITY / BAGHDAD: The Vatican on Tuesday called for Muslim leaders to denounce the brutality of Islamic State (IS) militants who have swept across Iraq, saying there was no […]
NY Times: BAGHDAD — When American forces raided a home near Falluja during the turbulent 2004 offensive against the Iraqi Sunni insurgency, they got the hard-core militants they had been looking for. They also picked up an apparent hanger-on, an Iraqi man in his early 30s whom they knew nothing […]
The Standard: At a restaurant in Knightsbridge last week, I saw more Arabs on the streets than I do when I am in Dubai Mall in the Emirates. I am […]
Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan. In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]
theguardian: by Joseph Wakim — Many Muslim Australians watched with horror as their American counterparts were humiliated at Barack Obama’s annual Iftar dinner at the White House on 14 July, when he appeared with Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer. With Dermer’s tweeted support, Obama said during the dinner that “Israel has the right to defend itself […]
NDTV: United Nations: The UN has named three experts as members of an independent inquiry commission that will probe possible human rights violations and war crimes committed, particularly in the […]
NDTV: Cuttack: A leader of the ruling BJP’s ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, has controversially suggested that India is a Hindu state and “citizens of Hindustan should be known as Hindus”, provoking a political storm. At a function on Sunday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, “The entire world […]
Daily Times: The solution for the plight of Muslims lies in economic uplift and not tokenism but, unfortunately, even the Indian left and secular forces have engaged in tokenism vis-à-vis […]
UNCHR: GENEVA (30 May 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today calls on the Government and people of Myanmar […]