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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

Govt wins FDI vote on retail in Lok Sabha

Source: Business Today Foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail on Wednesday got the approval of the Lok Sabha as the Opposition motion seeking immediate withdrawal of the decision was rejected convincingly as BSP and SP walked out. While 218 members voted in favour of the Opposition motion, 253 voted against […]

Who will Gujarat’s Muslims vote for?

Source: Tehelka CAMPAIGNING IS on in full swing for the Gujarat assembly elections this month. Both the BJP and chief minister Narendra Modi are predicting a third term for him. Modi’s media managers are selling him as the man of ‘development in the state’, and big industrial houses are pitching […]

مجھےکام بتاؤ میں کیا کروں میں کس کو کھاؤں: The Djin is out after Qadianis declared Non Muslims

Source Dawn urdu بر صغیر میں مختلف مذاہب اور فرقوں میں مکالمے اور بحث کی روایت بہت پرانی ہے۔ بلکہ یوں کہئے کہ بہت پرانی تھی۔  آج یہ تصور کرنا بھیمشکل لگتا ہے لیکن پاکستان میں ایک وقت وہ بھی تھا کہ جب ایک فرقے کے عالم دوسرے فرقے پر […]

انسانی حقوق کا چمپیئن: Pakistan–Urdu Article

Blog By Ahmad Shoaib ہ منتخب ہوا۔ اس موقع پر پاکستان کے اقوام متحدہ میں مستقل نمائندہ نے میڈیا سے بات چیت کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ پاکستان نے ہمیشہ اپنے ملک میں انسانی حقوق کی اقدار کو بلند کیا ہے اور انسانی حقوق پاکستان کے قانون اور نظریہ کا حصہ […]

Unsafe even in death

Source: ET A tombstone desecrated by unidentified men at the graveyard. PHOTO: RABIA MEHMOOD/FILE Dead or alive, the Ahmadi community of Pakistan has not been spared from discrimination and hate crimes in our country for decades. Another atrocity against the community occurred in Model Town, Lahore on December 3, in […]

Muslim world’s condition

Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]