Author Archives

Zia H Shah

He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes

In The Name Of Defending Islam Under the usual cover of ‘Islam is in Danger’, a pernicious campaign seems to be getting mounted against the Ahmadis in Hyderabad. C.M. NAIM

In a previous essay in April, “Learn from Pakistan“, I described the rapidly increasing coarseness of feeling and language against the Ahmadis in the Indian Urdu press, concluding that it does not bode well for either India or its Muslims. The article mainly dealt with some events in Punjab, Haryana, […]

About half a million souls join Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, during the year, 121 new missions established

Source: Ahmadiyya Times / MTA.TV Ahmadiyya Mulim Community is now established in 200 countries of the world with Chile being of the latest additions. The progress of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was laid out by His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirzā Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, before a crowd of 30,000 in the […]

China train crash kills 32

At least 32 people have died after a high speed train crashed into a stalled train in China‘s eastern province of Zhejiang on Saturday, causing four carriages to fall off a bridge. Source: Guardian Another 200 people have been taken to hospital following the accident which occurred after the first […]

Tall people are healthier

New research shows that if you’re above average height you’re general standard of health will be higher too, although you are slightly more at risk from certain cancers. Not only do tall people have an advantage when it comes to reaching stuff on high shelves, it turns out they’re healthier […]

The thrill of discovery

Source:dawn.com There was a time, not very long ago, when all we had by way of translations in India were the Jatak katha, Panchatantra, Gita or Mahabharata in English. The launch of Penguin India in the mid-1980s and the publication of Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, the seminal Partition novel translated from […]

Khar says no need for cajoling on militancy

Source:dawn.com NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Pakistan’s new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue. Hina Rabbani Khar also told reporters on the […]

SPD politician calls for ‘no politics’ day

Andrea Nahles, general secretary of the Social Democratic Party, and new mother, has called on German politicians to take “one day off politics” every week. Source: TheLocal Nahles told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper, “The parties should agree on a set day – ideally Sunday – when everything that has anything […]