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.
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Thousands take to downtown streets for annual festivities CBC News Posted: Apr 24, 2016 11:00 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 24, 2016 4:34 PM ET Thousands took to the streets this afternoon as the Khalsa Day parade moved through downtown Toronto, commemorating the Sikh new year. More than 85,000 people were expected […]
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Joginder Paul Passed Away – 1925 – 2016 Eminent Urdu novelist & short story writer Joginder Paul passed away in India on 23 April 2016. He was famous for his unique style in this genre. He was born 5th September 1925 in Sialkot, emigrated to Nairobi but moved back to […]
New Delhi, Apr 22: Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been appeared in the TIME list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World, released on Thursday. […]
Zac Goldsmith has a “mountain to climb” to avoid defeat in the race to be Mayor after Sadiq Khan opened up an 11-point lead in first preference votes, according to […]
Michelle Rempel, National Post | April 18, 2016 10:38 AM ETMore from National PostI couldn’t believe he said that to you!” Last week I found myself, once again, telling one of the young women on my staff that, “It’s important to address sexism in the moment it happens.” Earlier, she witnessed another member […]
Dean Obeidallah, NY http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade say it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox News plan to make their viewers dumber, as we saw […]
Durham regional police are investigating after an Ajax mosque received two threatening phone calls in one week. Waqqas Syed, president of the Islamic Society of Ajax, said the first call came in on April 8 and the second on April 16. “When we heard the first message we thought it […]
Moral Matrix: Islam, Religious Freedom and Europe Today | Clarion Project Source: Clarion Project BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND AND MEIRA SVIRSKY Three separate cases in different parts of the world illustrate […]
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a University of California-Berkeley student and Iraqi refugee, says he was escorted out of Southwest flight after a passenger heard him speaking Arabic and reported him as a possible safety threat. http://gulfnews.com/news/americas/usa/california-student-says-airline-removed-him-for-speaking-in-arabic-1.1714951 LOS ANGELES: A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the US as an Iraqi […]
AGRA, INDIA—The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge invoked nostalgia Saturday as they sat and smiled for photos on the same marble bench in front of the Taj Mahal where Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, had posed alone for a memorable 1992 photo. Winding down their weeklong royal tour of […]
Waqar Ahmedi Saturday 16 April 2016 424 comments independent.co.uk Have you ever identified yourself as something, lived and breathed it all your life, and then told you’re not really what you believe yourself to be? I’ve always called myself a Muslim, but recently the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) made a […]
Don’t get me started:’ Trudeau delivers impromptu quantum computing lesson Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press | April 15, 2016 | Last Updated: Apr 16 6:42 AM ET More from The Canadian Press Nathan Denette/ The Canadian PressPrime Minister Justin Trudeau walks on stage to make an announcement at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.ERLOO, Ont. […]
Muhammad Umar Naseem, seen at his Don Mills-area apartment. Naseem claims he was not paid for thousands of hours of overtime he worked at a Toronto Petro-Canada station in 2009-2015. By: Robert Cribb Foreign, Brennan Leffler Global 16×9, Published on Fri Apr 15 2016 When Muhammad Umar Naseem came to Canada from Pakistan in 2008, […]
By: Sarah-Joyce Battersby Staff Reporter, Published on Thu Apr 14 2016 thestar.com hakimquick.com Just days after celebrating cultural bridges, a Toronto imam has been targeted in a Daesh hit list. The self-declared Islamic State called out Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick along with other Muslims in the West, urging followers to kill them for […]
Some of Samia Sultan’s neighbours don’t greet her any more, and sometimes it’s hard for her to understand why. Sultan, a dentist, lives in Glasgow, in an area of the city that is – like most Muslim populations in the UK – majority Sunni. But Sultan isn’t Sunni: she is […]
By: Jonathan Forani Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 11 2016 thestar.com 138 boys for 100 girls? Baldev Mutta (centre), CEO of Brampton’s Punjabi Community Health Services, is surrounded by his grand daughter Talon Mutta, 9 (left) and daughter Rakhi Mutta. Mutta is involved in initiatives to celebrate girls born to Indian parents. […]
‘Kill Ahmadis’ hate group Khatme Nubuwwat must be banned – campaigners By Tom Porter April 11, 2016 ibtimes.co.uk Campaigners have called on the Home Office to ban anti-Ahmadiyya group Khatme Nubuwwat (KN), following the brutal murder of Ahmadi shopkeeper Asad Shah in Glasgow. From its UK headquarters in Forest […]
Ottawa police investigate hate crime after Muslim school targeted with graffiti CBC News Posted: Apr 11, 2016 9:57 AM MT Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016 11:27 AM MT Two Syrian refugee fathers say they’re scared for their kids in Calgary after both men say they were assaulted over the weekend in Forest […]