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.
A Pakistani man has been recognised by the Guinness World Records for being the fastest person to type a text message using Swype technology. Abdul Basit Siddiqi accomplished the feat by typing a two-sentence long text message in a lightning 17.5 seconds in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on May 22: “The razor-toothed piranhas […]
Source: Notre Dame University website By Dennis Brown Rafat and Zoreen Ansari and their family, of South Bend, Indiana, have made a $15 million gift to the University of Notre […]
Insaf Newspaper June 1, 2017 ….. Idris Ahmad and Saba Zafar sentenced to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment, with RS 200,000 each fine under 298B PPC. Faisababad special court Judge Muhammad Khalik Naz decision. Seven others were set free. Amir Fahim, Zahid Mahmood, Ihsan Allah Danish, Nafis Ahmad, Rashed Mahmood, Abdus Samee, […]
London, May 31Mosques have refused to bury the body of Manchester-born suicide bomber Salman Abedi who blew himself up at a concert last week killing 22 persons. The city’s authorities are reportedly doing “everything in their power” to stop the 22-year-old Libyan-origin bomber’s cremation, burial in any way in the […]
http://www.humsub.com.pk/65009/ghazala-qazi/ Dr Ghazala Qazi, My friend who is diabetic asked her physician about fasting, he refused to answer for fear of Ramadan Bill. Any one eating in public is liable for Rs 500 fine and 3 months of incarceration. Read, cry and reflect گرمی کی شدت سے پیدا ہونے والی […]
May 26, 2017 by Michael Stone 30 Comments . com/blogs Progressive Secular Humanist Inviting everyone to “accept Christ,” a Minnesota lawmaker uses Jesus to dodge questions from Democrats about her support for questionable offshore tax havens. ThinkProgress reports Minnesota Rep. Abigail Whelan refused to respond to a question from […]
New Delhi, May 28 An indigenous rocket as heavy as 200 full-grown Asian elephants could well be the one taking “Indians into space from the Indian soil” as the country inches closer to joining the big boy’s space club. http://tribuneindia.com/news/nation/isro-braces-to-tame-monster-rocket-that-could-launch-indians-into-space/414012.html Standing tall on the rocket port at Sriharikota in Andhra […]
By SHREE PARADKARColumnist, The Toronto Star Thu., May 25, 2017 https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/05/25/whether-its-a-nick-or-full-circumcision-female-genital-mutilation-is-about-control-paradkar.html Unsuspecting girls, told by their mothers they are being taken some place special. That place, a darkened room, where they are held down, their little legs parted and a blade brought down to slice off the hood of the clitoris […]
By Wajid Shamsul Hasan 24-May-17 I wanted to write my column on the astounding success of Karachi Literary Festival for the first time on Saturday at the hub of London’s cultural activities -the South Bank but then I was shell shocked and pulled away from my topic by an enormous tragic event […]
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN……………FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 05:58 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 06:04 PM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump has accomplished the impossible. After correctly diagnosing the ailment that afflicts the Muslim world, he has prescribed the wrong medicine as the cure, thus ensuring the epidemic will thrive. […]
While the current Republican leadership in Congress is working to make rich people richer while taking away health care access and vital programs for the poor, Democrats can still try and pass resolutions that carry symbolic weight. Rep. Jamie Raskin has just introduced H.Res. 349 which calls for the “global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and […]
President Trump may be a buffoon, but a President Pence would bring ruin upon the nation and turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/05/warning-president-pence-worse-president-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 As Trump’s troubles continue to grow, conservatives and liberals alike are wrestling with the very real possibility that Trump will be forced out of office […]
BBC.Com http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-36103880 A faith leader who used his role as a “spiritual guide” to cover up a multimillion-pound property fraud and tax-evasion scam has been jailed.Mehbook Akhtar Muslim cleric Mehboob Akhtar, of Stoke-on-Trent, was sentenced along with nine others including his wife and daughter. They were found guilty of lying […]
Indian Islamic preacher, Dr Zakir Naik, who is wanted by authorities in Delhi for alleged terrorist offences, has been granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia. Arab sources reported that King Salman had intervened to grant Naik Saudi citizenship to protect him from arrest by the International Police Organisation, Interpol. Last month, […]
New York, May 20 A 20-year-old Indian-origin Cornell University student was found dead here after going missing this week. Aalaap Narasipura, a senior electrical engineering student at Cornell’s College of Engineering, was reported missing since Wednesday. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd) Cornell University Police, working with the New York State Police, […]
Source: India The 64-gram satellite has been named after the former Indian president, and a pioneer in aeronautical science in India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. By Aishwarya Krishnan | Published: May 15, 2017 2:53 PM IST India has been a pioneer in the field of science and an 18-year-old teen, […]
Tribune News Service, Amritsar, May 19 A doctor kidnapped on Thursday night by gangster Gopi Ghanshaypuria and his accomplices near Ajnala in Amritsar was released after his wife paid a ransom of Rs 7.5 lakh to the kidnappers.The gangster is reportedly linked to Vicky Goundar. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)http://tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/amritsar-doc-kidnapped-released-after-wife-pays-rs-7-5-lakh-in-ransom/409550.html The […]
By DAN BILEFSKY and CHRISTINA ANDERSONMAY 18, 2017 NYTimes When a politician in a small town in northern Sweden recently suggested that it subsidize one-hour sex breaks for local employees, Swedes — and people around the world — reacted with a mixture of astonishment, glee and derision. The politician, Per-Erik Muskos, 42, a member of the […]
In Islamic law, a divorced woman has to wait during the ‘iddat’ period for about three months before she can remarry. By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: May 15, 2017 4:36 pm In Islamic law, a divorced woman has to wait during the ‘iddat’ period for about three months before […]