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.
BBC.COM http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37021385#” A man has been jailed for life after he admitted the religiously-motivated murder of a Glasgow shopkeeper whom he claimed had “disrespected” Islam.Sunni Muslim Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in Shawlands on 24 March. Ahmed had said he killed […]
Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has become Team USA’s most outspoken Trump-slayer, but her dad says women shouldn’t embarrass or stand up to men. RIO DE JANEIRO—The first U.S. Olympian to compete in a hijab had just made her competition debut, but Ibtihaj Muhammad’s father had other things on his mind. He’s overwhelmed with pride […]
At least 60 people killed in blast and scores wounded as suicide bomber targets gathering of lawyers in emergency room. A suicide attack at the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta, where a group of mourning lawyers were gathered to accompany the body of a murdered […]
Jonathan Liew, rio de janeiro 7 AUGUST 2016 • 9:02PM. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/07/rio-olympics-2016-ibtihaj-muhammad-set-to-become-the-first-ameri/ There are still a few people out there who claim that Ibtihaj Muhammad is not truly American, which when you consider the facts of the matter is a pretty ambitious argument. She was born and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey; […]
Syrian Women Burned a Burqa after Being Freed From the Islamic State August 3, 2016 Women in the Syrian city of Manbij celebrated their liberation from the Islamic State by burning a Burqa, the full-body covering they had been forced to wear in public under the militant group’s rule. In […]
The man who invented the ‘bionic eye’ ANJUM NIAZ — PUBLISHED FEB 28, 2016 06:32AM DAWN.COM http://www.dawn.com/news/1242055 L PRINT Mark Humayun A Pakistani-American has won the US highest award for technology achievement. Mark Humayun is to receive the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama. It is a “testament to American […]
Six minutes and one second. That was all it took for the 66 years of Khizr Khan’s life to become an American moment. It was not something that he could have anticipated. For years, he and his wife, Ghazala, had lived a rather quiet existence of common obscurity in Charlottesville, […]
Donald Trump has many positions on many, many things. Except windmills. He hates them. Bigly. It’s impossible to discern what Donald Trump actually believes, if anything at all, but there is one policy position on which he has never wavered: wind turbines. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/donald-trump-hates-windmills-more-than-hillary-clinton.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon He fucking hates them, though in true Trump fashion […]
More than 100,000 students took to the streets in Bangladesh on Monday to protest the rise of Islamist extremism in the South Asian country, according to Association Press. Map showing the location of Bangladesh. (Photo: Screenshot from Google Maps) Protesters linked arms and formed human chains in the capital Dhaka and in […]
Donald Trump invites ridicule for eating KFC with a knife and fork Twitter users mocked Trump’s attempt to appeal to the masses in photo of himself preparing to eat By Avneet Dhillon, CBC News Posted: Aug 02, 2016 12:18 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 02, 2016 4:07 PM ET Washington, Aug 3: Politicians […]
theguardian.com Greece: Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention centre have tried to convert some of the Muslim detainees, who have been held under the terms of the EU-Turkey migration deal. On at least two occasions in recent months, aid workers have distributed conversion forms inside copies of Arabic […]
Women are better represented among the country’s medal contenders – but even a man could be our darling It’s an even more tricky business trying to guess who will be the person who sticks in people’s minds. Prior to the 2014 Winter Games, it’s doubtful that more than a handful […]
It’s hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.” NYTimes 2016/08/01 Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. But by the 1950s, it had become […]
what is Kafala system? employee cannot quit his/her job without employers consent By: Vicky Nanjappa Updated: Monday, August 1, 2016, 13:02 [IST New Delhi, Aug 1: Watching your fellow countrymen stand in queue for food is never a good sight. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had said that the number […]
New Delhi, July 31: In what has come as a shocking development, over 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are facing a “food crisis”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. “The number of Indian workers facing food crisis in Saudi Arabia is over Ten Thousand,” Sushma Swaraj said […]
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1#tpp-deal John Kasich OHIO GOVERNOR “Typical politician” “can’t make a deal work” “mathematically dead and totally desperate” “will drop like a rock in the polls” “only looks O.K. in polls against Hillary because nobody views him as a threat and therefore have placed ZERO negative ads against him” “bought and […]
thedailybeast.com The regulation headstone at grave 7986 in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery bears a crescent moon and a star in keeping with the fallen soldier’s faith. The inscription is precisely what it would have been had his religion been signaled by a cross or a star: KHAN, HUMAYUN […]
For the fourth time in weeks, Christians were attacked in Egypt by a Muslim mob after rumors circulated that a Christian house that was being built was going to be turned into a church. During the attack, which occurred on July 22 in Saft AL-Kharsa village in the Beni Suef governorate, four […]
Imagine the kind of outcry that would occur in the United States if the government sent a Secret Service detail to protect Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates.Billionaire Mukesh Ambani,, top, third from right, and his wife Nita Ambani, top second from right, attend swearing-in for Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]