Talibanization, Pakistan and Global Consequences

The government of President Mussharraf is under unprecidented crisis. No words minced. As the preceding dictators of Pakistan never faced a crisis akin to what Pres. Mush is facing. Pres. Bhutto and Zia-Ul- Haq survived and ruled by encouraging increasing islamization of Pakistan society. It was a requirement to fight the communist russians in Aghanistans and that bred the Mujahhidins .. and Talibans. With the end of the cold war and collaspe of Soviet union, the ground reality suddenly changed. And with September 11, 2001 the Pakistan government is now required to fight against the militias they helped training with US support.

With US/NATO troups in Afghanistan, the Talibans filtered into frontier regions in Pakistan. Pres. Mush. made a pact with the devil and allowed the law of sharia in those provinces. But now the Lala Masjid (Red Mosque) episode in Islamabad suggests that he is just a helpless president, unless he plays a master political stroke. Else, under fire from both sides, the inteligencia with Justice Chowdhry and militia with Red mosque cleric brothers, he might be loosing the power soon. Let's see how far Allah, Army and America can taqke him.

General in the line of fire with Stewart

It's now a relatively old one ... but a must see for all people who wants to learn the art of tight rop walking. Three salutes to the General.



Or you can see this on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWwmNCMVpo

Does Japanese Bioinformatics servers work?

This is a general frustration for me and a couple of friends of mine whether japanese Bioinformatics server ever work for outsiders? I am not puting the famous servers into these categories but a few examples are

http://medaka.dsp.jst.go.jp/MEPD
http://timpani.genome.ad.jp

Does any body join my frustration?