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.
The News: Special Report Being Ahmadi I.A. Rehman August 10, 2014 Leave a comment The sufferings of the Ahmadis are not confined to killings and destruction of their property. Their whole generations have been forced to stay imprisoned within their mental recesses Read More » “What needs to be curtailed […]
theguardian — It is clear that more and more people across the world – justifiably or not – are asking why western governments may assert a moral and legal right to mount air strikes in defence of embattled women and children dying in the mountains of northern Iraq, but […]
BBC News — http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/smp-html/player.html?1.3.13 “I’m here for children of Gaza,” one protester told the BBC’s Mark Sanders Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a rally for Gaza in London. The demonstration came amid renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militants after a three-day ceasefire ended on Friday. […]
Guardian: I never thought secular society would be something that would, in my lifetime, need defending. Yet, without having become any more religious, en masse, we find that state education has been handed over to any have-a-go Harry that feels up to it, which in a quarter of cases means […]
Lutfblogs: What do you imagine the front line against Islamist extremism looks like? Will this war fix anything? Image courtesy Stars and Stripes. Does it comprise of NATO led troops, security agencies and hired guns fighting against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan? Or is it the […]
LONDON (Reuters) – British police raided an English country pub this week in search of a stolen wooden relic believed by some to be the Holy Grail – a cup […]
Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and a professor of politics, has been selected to receive the 2014 Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Award for his “tireless commitment to religious freedom.” George, who is also vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will be honored at the group’s […]
faithstreet.com: I can empathize with religious groups whose mission is to convert everyone in the world, since I think the world would be better if everyone “saw the light” of secular humanism. But whether religious or secular, I believe the best form of proselytizing is to lead by example. I […]
Huff Post: by Eric Simpson — The notion that one can be spiritual but not religious is like saying you have blood in your body, but don’t care much for the skeleton. Similarly, claiming you need to go to Church to be spiritual is like saying you need to shop […]
Huff Post: Forget for one moment the timid pronouncements of Barack Obama and David Cameron. When will Arab rulers dare raise their voice against Israel’s pounding of Gaza? “I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in […]
HRW: (New York) – Pakistan’s government should rescind the suspension of fundamental rights and the grant of military authority for law enforcement in Islamabad, Human Rights Watch said today. Powers given to the military risk misuse in the face of ongoing large-scale political protests. “Pakistan faces very real threats of terrorism, […]
AMYA: Does Islam sanction murder in foreign lands? Does jihad entail forcing Islam on the unwilling? Is militant terrorism ever justified by the Qur’an or the practice of the Prophet Muhammad […]
Aljazeera: Rabwah, Pakistan – Seeing her lying in her hospital bed, it’s difficult to tell what Mubashara Jarra has been through. Outwardly, she appears fine. No intravenous tubes snaking into her body, and no bandages covering up her wounds. “I’m feeling much better,” she says, in a low voice. It is, […]
Pennlive.com: by David Wenner — Muslims who are firing rockets in the name of Islam are violating the principles of their faith. That will be a central theme of an annual American-Muslim convention that will take place Aug. 15-17 at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. The convention by the […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls on the Muslim nations to play their roles in ending the violence and establishing peace His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the World Head of […]
The Telegraph: Nurseries are at risk of being taken over by religious extremists, the Education Secretary will warn as she announces that toddlers are to be taught “fundamental British values”. […]
Huff Post: dys·to·pia [ dis-ˈtō-pē-ə] noun: an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly; an unpleasant future where people are often dehumanized; a nightmare world characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression, disease and overcrowding. ______ Typically, dystopian societies are depicted through the […]
Haretz.com: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked United States legislators to assist Israel in fending off charges that Israel committed war crimes during its month-long operation in Gaza, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. “The prime minister asked us to work together to ensure that this strategy of going […]
The Diplomat: While South Asian human rights discourse, including both Indian and Pakistani, is obsessed by the issue of Palestine, a cause that has little real relevance to the region, numerous violent incidents closer to home get scant attention, such as the violence in Xinjiang, China, just over the border […]
Indian express: Barely 14 months after convincingly winning a general election, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government is being asked to resign amid threats of street protests. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Canada-based Sunni cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri plan separate marches on Islamabad on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. Several politicians and parties known […]