Zakaria Virk is a writer, translator, author and historian of Islamic science. He has compiled 17 books in Urdu and English, written scores of article published in newspapers, magazines of India, Pakistan, UK, USA and Canada. He is a retired civil servant. He has two sons both living in the US, one Adnan is ESPN sports TV anchor in Bristol, Connecticut. He has traveled to more than 15 countries. He has published 5 books on the life and achievements of Muslim world's first Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. (1926-1996).
He has donated blood 50 times in Canada. He is a card carrying member of Liberal Party of Canada.
TORONTO – Hindus from across Toronto plan to protest outside a North York middle school until a controversial Friday prayer session for 400 Muslim students is stopped. The Canadian Hindu Advocacy is one of a number of Toronto-area groups who are opposed to the 30- to 40-minute services that occurred in the cafeteria […]
On Sunday, Toronto’s gay community will celebrate Pride on downtown streets. At the same time, Muslims attending a major Islamic conference at the nearby Metro Toronto Convention Centre will hear from two speakers who say gays should be killed. Journey of Faith is the same annual event that drew criticism […]
He built Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and is accused of having sold his knowledge to Libya and Iran. Since 2004, Abdul Qadeer Khan has been under a state of house arrest. In an e-mail interview, he now explains why he accepted sole blame for the accusations at the time and points […]
http://www.toronto.com/article/689492 Long before India had information technology or outsourcing services or a booming economy, it had Bollywood — older and bigger than Hollywood. But when I was growing up in India, Bollywood was thought of as a purveyor of “pageant for peasants,” a view my parents shared. I got to […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1010425–black-hole-eats-star-causes-mysterious-flash?bn=1 Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of an extraordinary flash spied in a faraway galaxy, saying it came from a massive black hole that devoured a star after it wandered too close. The awesome energy released by the feeding frenzy was first detected by NASA’s Swift satellite on […]
Canada Post has suspended urban operations nationwide, saying it had no other choice. Just before midnight Tuesday, Canada Post issued a release saying it has locked out employees after 12 days of “increasingly costly and damaging” rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). On Tuesday, about 15,000 […]
http://www.thestar.com/article/1002699–siddiqui-vast-indian-diaspora-builds-bridges On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth Force) in India to end British colonial rule in 1947. Now on Jan. 9 every year, New Delhi hosts 1,500 representatives […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/998962–colony-of-wives-thrives-in-mississauga?bn=1 Ilmana Fasih was at a wedding in Mississauga when she suffered an emotional meltdown. She remembers loud, lively music, table upon table of mouth-watering food and people chatting, cracking jokes. “I just started crying,” Fasih says. “I was feeling terrible that my husband wasn’t there . . . “There […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/997508–brampton-man-sues-government-alleging-csis-harassed-him?bn=1 A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant. The recently filed lawsuit comes after child pornography charges against Ayad Mejid, 48, were dropped when a […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/993475–walkom-csis-adds-its-own-mole-to-terror-list?bn=1 Talk about nuts. We know that our security services are still passing on to Washington the names of Canadian citizens alleged to be terrorists — with or without proof. But it also seems that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has mistakenly added one of its own moles to the […]
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/immigration-whoas/2011/05/10/five-stupid-things-geert-wilders-said-during-his-stay-in-toronto/ Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders visited Toronto, where he spoke to both Sun TV’s Ezra Levant and the Canada Christian College. Wilders, for the uninitiated, is the leader of the third-largest political party in the Netherlands and the one-trickiest of one-trick ponies. His ideology can be summed up, essentially, as such: […]
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/14/florida_imams_arrested_for_pakistani_taliban_aid.html?wpisrc=newsletter_slatest Three U.S. citizens, including two imams of Florida mosques, were among the six people who have been indicted on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban. Five are family members. The three U.S. citizens were arrested, while the other three are at large in Pakistan. The indictment accuses […]
The German bank Commerzbank received an unusual transfer order in late February. The amount was €1.9 million ($2.7 million) and the bank was instructed to immediately transfer the funds from a Commerzbank account to a foreign account with another bank. The holder of the Commerzbank account was Saif al-Arab al-Gadhafi, […]
Friday, May 06, 2011 Pakistan’s Harbouring of Osama Bin Laden: The Mother of all Embarrassments Ayaz Amir The News, Islamabad http://thenews.jang.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=45440&Cat=9 For a country with more than its share of misfortunes and sheer bad luck, we could have done without this warrior of the faith, Osama bin Laden, spreading his […]
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/research/article/986931–deadly-stroke-risks-sex-coffee-and-blowing-your-nose Drinking coffee, having sex or even blowing your nose raises the risk of bursting a brain aneurysm you might not even realize you have. “No one has ever systematically dealt with the potential triggers before,” study co-author Dr. Ale Algra of Utrecht Stroke Center in the Netherlands told the […]
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/986312–the-day-has-24-hours-unless-you-re-a-woman-study-finds A 25-year series of rigorous sleep studies proves men and women really are marching to wildly different drummers. The Harvard Medical School study found fully 35 per cent of women live with a circadian rhythm (the 24-hour waking and sleeping cycle) of less than 24 hours. Men typically have […]
Who says elections are a nuisance? Stephen Harper and the media. The latter also parroted his pronouncement that this campaign was “unnecessary,” being the fifth since 2000. It’s a waste of money. It’s boring, to boot. Canadians have proven them wrong, being fully engaged from the first week to the […]
