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.
مذہبی سچ‘ روحانی سچ اور سائنسی سچ 15-05-2017 ڈاکٹر خالد سہیل 1,090 Views http://www.humsub.com.pk/63825/khalid-sohail-22/ بعض لوگوں کا ایمان ہے کہ ساری دنیا میں صرف ایک ہی سچ ہے. بعض لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ دنیا میں اتنے ہی سچ ہیں جتنے انسان. اور بعض لوگ یہ سمجھتے ہیں کہ ہم سچ کو […]
Swarajya Staff – May 14, 2017, 6:14 pm https://swarajyamag.com/world/tell-our-government-to-keep-zakir-naik-out-malaysian-hindus-to-un#sthash.3YcMh8zt.dpufMalaysian Hindus are beginning to organise themselves politically and as a start they are trying to save their country from Zakir Naik. The Chairman of HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force) in Malayasia, P Waythamoorthy, has called for the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A special judicial tribunal in India has upheld the government’s ban on Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). The tribunal found there were sufficient reasons, including a threat to India’s security, to outlaw it. The IRF had petitioned the judicial tribunal against the Nov 17, 2016 ban under […]
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
thestar.com 2017/05/14 MONTREAL—Hundreds of Quebec forestry workers are experiencing the first sour tastes from the softwood lumber battle with the United States as they prepare for the start of layoffs. Starting Monday, Resolute Forest Products is cutting shifts at seven sawmills and delaying the start of forest operations that will […]
By WAJAHAT ALIMAY 13, 2017, NYTimes.com 13/5/2017 American Muslims face a choice: vote Democratic, or vote themselves off the island. That’s how Haroon Moghul, the author of the coming memoir “How to Be a Muslim,” put it to me this month — and how many of my fellow American Muslim […]
At the TED Conference 2017, Shah Rukh Khan delivered a fantastic speech where he shared his thoughts on humanity, fame and love. IndiaToday.in | Written by Devarsi Ghosh Last month, Shah Rukh Khan attended […]
Source: The Guardian By Amrit Dhillon in Narhada, Meerut As India debates the validity of a law allowing men to divorce by uttering three words, one woman is blazing a trail […]
Henry S. Walace May 12, 2017 Seventy-three years ago, The New York Times asked the sitting vice president to write an article about whether there are fascists in America, and what they’re up to. It was an alarming question. And the vice president took it quite seriously. His article, “The Danger […]
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMAY 11, 2017 NYTimes President Trump is perhaps the world’s most powerful television addict. And like any TV fan, he has strong opinions about what he watches. In a series of caustic criticisms this week, Mr. Trump laced into on-air stars like the CNN news anchor Don Lemon […]
Triple Talaq Case: 5 Supreme Court Judges of 5 Faiths Begin Hearings At hearing on triple talaq, Supreme Court said polygamy among Muslims may not be part of deliberations. —– – See more at: http://www.newageislam.com/islamic-world-news/triple-talaq-case–5-supreme-court-judges-of-5-faiths-begin-hearings/d/111111#sthash.qUyAthRp.dpuf Edited by Aloke Tikku | Updated: May 11, 2017 NEW DELHI: The country’s five seniormost […]
Washington, May 7http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-american-doctor-shot-dead-in-michigan/403599.html A 32-year-old Indian-American doctor has been shot dead under mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan. Rakesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, some 90 […]
ESPN’s Adnan Virk moderated “Making It In the Major Leagues: How A Viral Video on Funny or Die Became the IFC Series ‘Brockmire’” at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. By Adam Candee (contact), LasVegas Sun Saturday, May 6, 2017 | 2 a.m. Adnan Virk’s professional history places him in the middle of […]
Jaipur, May 7http://tribuneindia.com/news/nation/rajasthan-dairy-farmers-selling-cow-dung-cakes-on-amazon/403491.html Three young entrepreneurs from Rajasthan’s Kota city — otherwise known as an education hub — have taken their 15-year-old dairy farming family business to the next level and are now selling cow dung cakes on e-tailing site Amazon. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd) “We found potential in this business. […]
Pakistan Has Few Pauses or Prayers to Spare For Its Women or For Its Poets By Rafia Zakaria May 3rd, 2017 Farzana Naz, a budding poet was attacked by a mob in a library where she was reciting poetry, and succumbed to her injuries in hospital in […]
BY Omar Mahmood, April 21, 2017 In Pakistan, a mob killed a journalism student because he didn’t believe. That could have been me. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/21/apostate-pakistan-lynched-islamophobia-blasphemy-column/100708734/#sthash.tSsNfeVU.dpuf (Photo: Abdul Majeed, AFP/Getty Images) 18477CONNECTTWEET 7LINKEDIN 101COMMENTEMAILMORE Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University […]
DAWN.COM 29/04/2017 By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz, says such persons experience the ‘Holy Shiver’ (called heiliger Schauer in German) just moments before performing the deed. In his famous book On […]
By: AFP | Cirebon | Published:April 28, 2017 7:50 am http://indianexpress.com/article/world/female-muslim-clerics-in-indonesia-issue-rare-fatwas-4631334/#sthash.g3KAk1BX.dpuf It urged the government to raise the minimum legal age for women to marry to 18 from the current age of 16. File photo of Muslim girls attending a class meeting at the Darul Muttaqien Islamic boarding school in Bogor, Indonesia, in […]
Thestar.com 2017/04/29 By DANIEL DALEWashington Bureau Sat., April 29, 2017 Campaigning in Michigan late in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump boasted that he had once been named the state’s “Man of the Year.” In fact, there is no such thing as Michigan Man of the Year. Before and after his victory, Trump […]
Legendary Indian film industry superstar, Vinod Khanna, who died on Thursday at the age of 70 in Mumbai due to prolonged illness, had roots in Peshawar.Vinod Khanna visited Qadian as member of Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TmKKK-ywg watch Vinod Khanna speaking at Qadian Jalsa Salana 2013 “Late Vinod Khanna was the son of Mehr Chand […]