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.
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Abraham Davis was sitting on a thin blue pad on the concrete floor of Cell 3 in a jail in western Arkansas when a guard came around with stamped envelopes and writing paper. The Two Americans Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their […]
Oslo – NNI https://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Index.aspx?Issue=NP_LHE Former Pakistani president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf was denied a meeting with the Norwegian PM during his visit to Norway last week, according to media reports. According to reports, the ex-military leader tried meeting Erna Solberg at the opening ceremony of a multicultural festival in Oslo […]
AFP | APAugust 26, 2017 Dawn.com A man wielding a knife was shot dead on Friday after wounding a soldier in Brussels in an “attempted terrorist murder”; in London, counter-terror experts were investigating a similar attack on police near Buckingham Palace. The two incidents come as much of Europe is on high […]
17 SHARES FacebookTwitterGoogle+EmailPrint Ravin Gandhi. New York, August 23 http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-origin-ceo-racially-abused-by-trump-supporters-in-us/456259.html An Indian-origin CEO was racially abused and told to “go back to India” and also take along Nikki Haley after he said that he will not support President Donald Trump’s economic agenda after the US leader appeared to defend white […]
Tribune News Service, Panchkula, August 25, http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/12-dead-panchkula-bears-the-brunt-as-violence-breaks-out-in-punjab-haryana/457311.htmlVehicles torched by Dera followers in Sector 5, Panchkula, on Friday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari Curfew in Panchkula, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Mansa; clashes with police, banks, govt offices attacked A trail of death and destruction descended on Panchkula as soon as Sirsa Dera head Gurmeet […]
Cristiano Ronaldo was named UEFA Player of the Season for 2016-2017 on Thursday after a campaign which saw the Portuguese superstar help Real Madrid to the La Liga and Champions League double. It was the third time that Ronaldo had won the award which was presented on the sidelines of […]
Ayaan Hirshi Ali, NYtimes.com 2017/08/24 Since the violence in Charlottesville 10 days ago, when white supremacists left one young woman dead and 19 others injured, the Southern Poverty Law Center has hit the jackpot. The Alabama-based nonprofit is set to receive millions of dollars in donations from some of the […]
Chiniot https://tribune.com.pk/story/1489391/man-murdered-religious-belief-disagreement/The inner view of the mosque where the incident took place. PHOTO: EXPRESS A member of Tablighi Jamaat was murdered while another was injured over disagreement about religious beliefs within Sadar police station precincts in Chiniot on Wednesday. Sadar Police Station SHO Muhammad Afzal told The Express Tribunethat 70-year-old Waliur […]
Tribune News Service New Delhi/Chandigarh, August 24http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/15-000-paramilitary-personnel-deployed-in-punjab-haryana-mobile-internet-to-be-suspended/456852.html More than 15,000 paramilitary personnel have been deployed in Punjab and Haryana ahead of Friday’s Dera verdict by a Panchkula court, a Union Home Ministry official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, mobile Internet and data services across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will be suspended for […]
By NOOR JAVEDNews reporter Wed., Aug. 23, 2017, thestar.com With just two weeks before the school year begins, students at a private Islamic high school in Toronto are “devastated” and scrambling to find other options after they were informed over the weekend it was abruptly shutting down. Management of the Islamic […]
While some pray for Barcelona after the terrorist attack that left at least 13 people dead and more than 100 injured, others offer prayers of celebration. The bitter truth is that Islamic extremists celebrate the death and carnage in Barcelona as an answer to their prayers, and a victory for […]
Satya Prakash, Tribune News Service, New Delhi, August 22After triple talaq verdict, All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board president Shaista Ambar celebrates with a petitioner in Lucknow. —Tribune photo tribuneindia.com Muslim men can no longer pronounce instant triple talaq as the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the age-old practice unconstitutional on […]
NYtimes.com 2017/08/19 LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Parliament is poised to pass the nation’s first law recognizing transgender people as equal citizens and laying out penalties for discrimination and violence against them, a surprising victory for activists in a country with deeply conservative social views. The Transgender Persons Protection of Rights […]
Dawn.com 2017/08/20 An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors. The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled on Friday in favour of the woman, who argued that her husband’s […]
NYTimes 2017/08/17 GORAKHPUR, India — It was around 6 a.m. last Friday, said Mohamed Jahid — the father of a very sick little girl being treated at a government hospital — when the oxygen stopped. The situation was desperate, but the parents of children in the intensive care unit did […]
Maulana Mohammed Fayyaz Baqri’s wife is among the many women who impart knowledge about the Quran to fellow Muslim women. http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/in-a-first-yari-road-mosque-opens-door-to-women-ulemas/articleshow/60078262.cms- By Linah Baliga, Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 01.21 AM IST At a time when Muslim women are breaking into many a male bastion, a mosque on Yari Road has […]
Source: Egyptian Streets Tunisian President Beji Caed Essibsi called on Sunday on the prime minister and minister of justice to make changes to the publication No 73 that bans Tunisian […]
Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education invites 8-minute videos on the theme Fostering Tolerance in Pakistan Videos that explore efforts at bringing change to Pakistan with a focus on ideas, causes, campaigns, individuals and institutions that have been successful and those that have failed, and why. The competition seeks to raise awareness […]
In continuation of a traditional custom, Indian troops presented sweets to Pakistani troops at the Wagah border to celebrate their Independence Day. Every year, border troops from the neighboring countries exchange sweets at the Wagah border on their respective Independence Days as well as other special occasions. The sweets were […]
Facebook’s favorite Christian Joshua Feuerstein doesn’t want you to know that the KKK is a Christian organization. In a recent rant Feuerstein claimed that the KKK marching with white nationalists in Virginia are not really Christians because “racism is of the devil.” https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoshua.feuerstein.5%2Fvideos%2F1099956923440322%2F&show_text=0&width=476 Here’s the reality: [The marchers] are no […]