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.
Harper’s war on science continues with a vengeance If Stephen Harper agenda succeeds, the result is a diminished Canada, afraid of open-ended questions and speculative science. By: Chris Turner Published on Sun Oct 13 2013 The Toronto Star This week, after another tumultuous summer of scandal and the third prorogation […]
Harper’s war on science continues with a vengeance If Stephen Harper agenda succeeds, the result is a diminished Canada, afraid of open-ended questions and speculative science. By: Chris Turner Published on Sun Oct 13 2013 The Toronto Star This week, after another tumultuous summer of scandal and the third prorogation […]
Scarborough man admits he belonged to terror cell Another member of the so-called Toronto 18, which was allegedly plotting to detonate truck bombs in downtown Toronto, admitted in a Brampton court yesterday that he belonged to a homegrown terror cell. By: Isabel Teotonio Star Staff Reporter, Published on Tue Sep […]
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New mosque hopes to ‘promote love for all’ Plan to open in 2015 By Jason Warick, The Starphoenix October 7, 2013 Lal Khan Malik, president of the Ahmaddiya Muslim Community of Canada speaks as the Saskatoon congregation of the organization holds a ceremony to mark the groundbreaking for a new […]
Could you eat 10 pizzas in 12 minutes? This guy did Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi wins Canada’s biggest pizza eating contest for the fourth year in a row. Toronto Star, October 6, 2013 Joel Eastwood Takeru Kobayashi defends his pizza eating title at Pie Wood Fired Pizza Joint in Barrie. […]
Muslim AIDS activist honoured by Canadian Council for Muslim Women Toronto Star, Oct 7, 2013 Joel Eastwood / Fanta Ongoiba was one of six Muslim women honoured Sunday for her work educating Muslims about AIDS. Fanta Ongoiba was honoured for her work educating Muslims about HIV by the Canadian Council […]
By Mehmud Ahmad, Brampton, Ontario Dr Daud Rehbar, an academic, thinker, writer, poet,musician and author of renown in the 64th year of his exile from Pakistan in a Nursing Home in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was 86 and is survived by a long-ailing widow and two daughters. He was the […]
LONDON — NAZIR AFZAL’S enemies are a diverse lot. NYTimes Some, like him, are Muslim men who were born in Britain but have roots in Pakistan or other South Asian countries and cannot understand how Mr. Afzal would be critical of forced marriages and honor crimes and give “racists another […]
By Zakaria Virk, Toronto According to traditional western writers, all science and civilization is derived from Greek heritage i.e. 6th centry BC to 2nd century AD. This heritage was lost during the Dark Ages i.e. 5-15th century AD, recovered during the European Renaissance -15-16th centuries, and revived for our modern […]
Calgary imam to Muslims: “Go home” By Farzana Hassan ,Toronto Sun First posted: Thursday, September 26, 2013 08:19 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013 08:23 PM EDT A prominent Calgary imam, Syed Soharwardy of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, recently declared that many Muslims should go back […]
Promoted posts: Urdu debates: Futility of Implementation of Shariah Law: To be or not to be? And: Video: Are Imran Khan’s Sympathizers Creating a Risk of Theocracy? The Muslim Times’ Editor’s note: We have not been able to confirm the accuracy of this news. This seems to be popular in Google search […]
John Baird to bring UN campaign against forced marriage home Canada’s foreign affairs minister says he’ll meet with justice and status of women minister to discuss solutions to hidden problem. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he’ll be discussing a recent report on forced marriages in Canada with the justice […]
111 Muslim Scientists, old and New by Zakaria Virk This Urdu book describes in detail life, works, scientific achievements, contributions of 42 medieval scientists. In the second half 69 contemporary […]
Khan – Politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Pakistan *1893-1985) Khan was one of Pakistan’s founders, and its first minister of foreign affairs, the first Asian president of International court of Justic, President of UN General Assembly, Amir of Lahore’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, He received his BA from King’s in […]
Have Islamist jihadis declared world war? By Tarek Fatah ,Toronto Sun, September 24, 2013 First posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 06:17 PM EDT Westgate An injured woman is helped out of the Westgate Shopping Centre where gunmen went on a shooting spree, in Nairobi September 21, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola September […]
Hollywood puts a thin mask on racial stereotyping Toronto Star, Sep. 22, 2013 The problem with Raj’s accent in The Big Bang Theory is that Hollywood is playing into a stereotype of Indian men not being ‘real men.’ By: Veena D. Dwivedi Published on Sun Sep 22 2013 The news […]
Source: Toronto Sun BY SHAWN JEFFORDS ,TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 11:10 PM EDT | UPDATED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 05:51 AM EDT TORONTO – The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable status of an Islamic group after it says it distributed over $280,000 to an agency allegedly linked to a terrorist organization […]
Teen prodigy finds home at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute Toronto Star, 22/9/2013 After a month at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Jacob Barnett is thrilled. The young genius, diagnosed with autism at age two, is happy to have found a place where he can do what he loves, reports […]