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.
Wahhabi Islam: General Overview Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:56:56 PM by StevenAU The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 shook the United States to its core. Since those horrific moments, our nation has been thrust into a global war against terror and religious extremism. Now more than ever, […]
The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/can-mens-preference-for-younger-women-explain-the-origin-of-menopause/article12531248/ Theories abound as to why women go into menopause, but the latest hypothesis being put forward suggests it may be men – or specifically their preference for younger mates – that has led to women’s loss of fertility at a certain age. Researchers at McMaster […]
By: Tony Burman Special to the Star, Published on Sat Jun 22 2013 The Toronto Star The overwhelming reaction of international governments to the dramatic outcome of Iran’s presidential election was cautious but hopeful. Some even wondered whether it might lead to a historic breakthrough in the dangerous nuclear conflict […]
The Toronto Star, Rick Westhead, June 20, 2013 A Toronto research group has found evidence that a Canadian firm is providing Internet surveillance and censorship technology to Pakistan. In a report to be released Thursday, The Citizen Lab Internet research group, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Islamic militants blew up a bus carrying female university students in Baluchistan Province in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday and then attacked a hospital complex where the wounded had been taken and local officials had gathered to comfort them, leaving at least 23 people dead. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/attacks-in-baluchistan-province-shake-pakistan.html?ref=world&_r=0 Militants first […]
Peter Scowen, The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:12 PM EDT, Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:25 PM EDT President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have further limited their two daughters’ narrow range of options for expressing garden-variety teen rebellion by telling them that, if […]
Epigraph: “They ask thee (Muhammad) concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater […]
The Toronto Star, June 4, 2013 By: San Grewal Urban Affairs Reporter, Published on Mon Jun 03 2013 Over lunch, Brampton-based newspaper journalist Satpaul Singh Johal asks if Rob Ford will retire. He’s already written one news story about the Toronto mayor’s video scandal and has just penned an analysis […]
England is a ‘cesspit’ breeding Islamists, warned Nobel Laureate Woel Soyinka in 2010 The Guardian, UK James Meikle ENGLAND is a “cesspit” and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of allowing the […]
Tarek Fatah Columnist, The Toronto SUN 05/23/2013 9:45 am, The Huffington Post When buses and trains exploded on 7/7 in London, the objective of the suicide bombers was to sow fear and terror in the very soul of the British people. In that the jihadis were successful. One would have […]
LARISSA CAHUTE, VANCOUVER DESI British Columbia’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community finally has a place to call home. The local and Canada-wide community raised $8 million for their new mosque on Delta’s River Rd. and nearly 5,000 people — including Ahmadiyya Muslim leader from the U.K., Mirza Masroor Ahmed — came out […]
NYTimes.com RUK, Pakistan — Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. “Cutbacks,” Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is […]
Africa’s ‘Arc of Instability’ From Markham to Mogadishu and London to Nouakchott: A Toronto Star investigation into Africa’s “Arc of Instability” and why westerners are joining the jihad. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent. Double agents within Al Shabab had warned Somalia’s security services that something spectacular […]
NYTimes LAHORE, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, once a political exile deposed by the military, returned to the cusp of power on Saturday, taking a commanding lead in a parliamentary election in which Pakistanis braved Taliban intimidation to cast ballots with historic prospects for the country’s democracy. Record […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials say Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, has died in Mexico. Two U.S. officials say Shabazz was killed Thursday morning in Mexico City. They spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case. Shabazz family publicist Terrie Williams confirms the death and […]
By Katharine Houreld and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD | Sat May 11, 2013 2:41pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/11/us-pakistan-election-idUSBRE9490V620130511 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif, seeking to become prime minister for a third time, appeared far ahead of his rivals in Saturday’s election, according to a partial count of votes cast. The election, in which […]
[Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22473573%5D NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: These are the desperate times for which Islam has asked capable men to come forward and take responsibility of more than one families. Before the war began, Kazal was in love with her neighbour in Homs. “He was 20 years old and I dreamed […]
By Tarek Fatah The Toronto SUN, May 8, 2013 In 2007, Environics conducted a survey about the attitudes of Canadian Muslims. It showed an astonishing 12% of respondents said, if the men in the so-called “Toronto 18” terror plot had succeeded in carrying out their attacks on Canada, they would […]
Source: TheLocal You might say he is just a collection of atoms, but then, really, aren’t we all? The Local’s German of the Week is Boy, from the world’s smallest stop-motion film, made with individual atoms moved by a German-led research team. The video A Boy and His […]
Source: Qantara.de The majority of Germans regard Islam as misogynist. No other issue in the public debate on integration has evoked such bitter controversy among Germans. Nonetheless, the image of […]