Reckoning Time for HEC I do not know why Hoodbhoy always criticize HEC. Just because Musharraf never looked upon him to be chairman in 2002 , its jealosuy nothing more.

( universities were about to start but present government due of lack of funds just postponed it. but CM Punjab Mr Shahbaz Sharif protested a lot on this delay and asked the PM to take action. Soon they will be started, inshallah

On Blades and Scalpels Actually when u r on white bed having a needles, drips, medicines going in your body 24/7 then u realize how the worth of a healthy soul and body. We while walking have plans to conquer te whole world and look down upon people but when we are on beds, then we realize that we cannot even go to the washroom. Then pateint calls Allah, asks for his forgiveness, and his/her heart melts in a true sense. Psychilogically, patient goes under severe stress situation and when a kind, dedicated and selfless doctor cure your wounds, its so fascinating, some sort of divine like thing, thats moment is unforgetable in the patient's whole life. Friends and many dance around u for needs or your purse is jingling with coins, but the doctors help you in pain, distress, and its the litmus test of any person's selflessness, kindness and attitude. Then patient rememeber this kindness in his/her prayers for whole of his/her life. Such thing cannot borrow by money or by any means, its above everything. when a patient heals, only Doctor's heart know how much she/he feel, contentment, overjoy, feelings cannot be exppressed in words, and its that feelings which makes one's heart crystal for Allah's love .

On Blades and Scalpels Dear Amber Baji

Salam

very exciting, breath taking rather inspirational story of a young doctor of Pakistan.


I myself experince the kindness specially of a female doctors when i remained in hospital due to accident.

Females mostly have tender hearts and they take much great care of patients, and patients cannot forget such kind gesture in there whole life. I pray to that female doctor and will pray for whole life how she cared me. God bless her, you and every doctor.

One thing made me sad we have such good doctors who leave this country many with economical conditions but many those who have not this prooblem as a result we lack good doctors and medical facilities in our beloved country.


However, may Allah give u more success, more p[ain and enthusiasm for the curing patients. I always pray for u and every doctor. We r proud of u. Pakistan is proud of such a caring doctor.

wasalam

On Blades and Scalpels Delhiwala, plz dont bring 1947 in every essay and post. I also know tons of stories how in Eastern Punjab muslims were treated by sikhs.plz we should keep to the topic thanks

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? Is it our national character that we dont pay tribute ..acknowledge and even consider the 'Silent Heroes' for what they are doing for Pakistan and islamic world. We kept that Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under seige who made aur defence unbeatable and gave us the most dangerous weapon of 1400 years.Media is so powerful today and 160 million people hear you daily.Why dont you not even mention this man who is the most genius man of the islamic world burning Cairo and Cordova flames after 1000 years...Your voice heard is whole Pakistan...not even a single column..not even a single news of this wonderful man what he is doing for Pakistan.He is so humble that he never show off for his work..but you people are the intellegencia..the intellectual core of Pakistan society...Your voice about him will be source of inspiration for thousands of curious science students of Pakistan.Look below what this man is doing for Pakistan and Ummah so silently !



Can anybody tell us.....

Whats in its body.....

blood...

or fire...

Bharkhti Aag nachhti hai is bandadai kee rago mai.....

in 2008...just in 7 months...this man...who is the General Secretary of Khwarzimic Science Society has arranged all this for students of Pakistan for Rs. 0.0

Apart from that ..he is one of the most genius man of the islamic world..as accepted by many people....a 26 year Doctrate from Oxford as Rhodes Scholar and Youngest PhD Advisor of Pakistan from HEC....,Pakistan leading Nanotechnologist and Quantum Computational expert.... the only Pakistani who got 779/850 in matriculation and just after that in just few months also gave O Level exams and got 9-A's, the Hall of Fame of Government College 78 years Debating History defeated the deabters of the whole world in an international debating contest...,worked on first Liquid State Quantum Computer of the World at Oxford,A former student of UET,Lahore,one and only Muhammad Sabieh Anwar



so anybody dares to compete him..and follow his footsteps...for what he is doing for Pakistan ..and islamic world.....


He is burning Cordova.. Cairo ,

Baghdad 's Flames after 1000 years...!


www.khwarzimic.org


Homepage of Sabieh Anwar Research Group:

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/sabieh/




Abubakr Muhammad.....

His old time Crescent...Government College...UET..friend..Abubakr Muhammad...doing 3rd post doc at the age of 31 ...from McGIll...Abubakr..is also a visiting scientist ..of SSE,LUMS,Lahore....and Collaborator of Sabieh Anwar Research Group at SSE,LUMS,Lahore.He has completed 2 masters..1 PhD..2 Post Docs..in just 5 years..from Gerogia Tech..Pennsylvania...etc.....

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abubakar/index. html




MUHAMMAD SABIEH ANWAR

Look at this young man of "30" ..and see what he is doing for Pakistan !!

..His age..only 30 years ..and he has completed his Post Doc from University of California ..Berkeley....under world greatest NMR/MRI scientist Professor Alex Pines ...completed his PhD at 26 from Oxford Universiy.....as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan......got his Electrical Engineering from UET , Lahore.and got first position.......( 87%) ....broke the 10 years record of Goverment College,Lahore ..in FSc..by getting 961/1100 and got first position and over all fourth in Matriculations from Crescent Model School , Lahore getting 779/850 and also passed O Level Exams ..in just few months ..and got 9 A's...!!!!




He can get 5 or 6 lakh Rs / month ...means 60K $ per annum...while researching in US or be a part of any prestigious universty faculty....but ...look...he is serving his mother land..due to which ..he is now ..at this position ...he is presently working as a Assistant Professor.....at LUMS....SSE... Lahore ..Pakisatn....


Look at Sabieh Anwar picture...at Oxford .....white colour face..here...


and look at his picture ..when he just arrived at Berkeley, California ....dark colour ..and weak face....


http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Image:Sabieh1.jpg




Do you know the reason.....?????



This is because..in hot summer ..and months in Pakistan ...in 2004...he used to go to Pakistan top most educational institutions to teach the science and engineering students ...totally free..about the latest research going on in the world....on his motor cycle...


On his bike...in 45 Celsius.....from Punjab University ..to Goverment Collge...from UET..to COMSAT..from LUMS..to Quada-i-Azam ,University, Islamabad ...

He used to go Islambad ..3 days in a week...on Niazi Bus Service.. ..from Lahore and back to Lahore ....where he was giving lectures in Punjab University..UET..and GC etc etc...He could earn 6 lakh Rs ..easily with any world top most University in US or UK ....

but he was riding his Honda 70 ...on Lahore Roads ..in 45 Celsius ..to give this nation..and ummah..all...which he gained at Oxford and Berkeley . !!!!!

1000 runners , greedy..hawis parast doctors ..and professionals...members of AAPNA which have run from Pakistan ...for money..can be sacrifised on the boot toe of such a patriot..dedicated..selfless..and one of the top most science scholar of islamic world....for what he did for Pakistan and Ummah.....and still is doing....!!!!




School of Scienece and Engineering , SSE,LUMS, Lahore .

MUHAMMAD SABIEH ANWAR


Muhammad Sabieh Anwar completed his D.Phil. from the Department of Physics, Oxford University (UK) in 2004, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan . His dissertation was titled, "Quantum Information Processing using Para-Hydrogen NMR" and revolved around the preparation of pure quantum states for quantum computing. This work also constituted the world first demonstration of quantum entanglement in the liquid state. Its the vbasic of world first liquid state quantum computer of the world.

His post-doctoral experience at the University of California , Berkeley ( USA ) involved the demonstration of hyperpolarized NMR using heterogeneous catalytic systems, microfluidic and "lab-on-a-chip" NMR, synthesis of precise magnetic fields for ex-situ NMR, algorithmic cooling, polarization lifetime studies and hypersensitive nanoparticle MRI. Prior to his doctoral studies Sabieh Anwar received his B.Sc. (Honours) degree in electrical engineering (electronics and communications) from the UET, Lahore .


Sabieh'scurrent research interests include quantum control, spin mechanisms in nanomagnetic materials and nanotechnology. His research has been published in the Physical Review Letters, A and B, Chemical Physics Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Daltons Transactions and Modern Physics Letters B.

He has also taught at the

* Punjab University,

* UET (Lahore),

* National Centre for Physics ,Quada-i-Azam University (Islamabad)

* COMSATS Department of Physics (Islamabad) and has been an active speaker at many national and international physics / chemistry forums.

Dr. Sabieh is also the Joint Secretary and one of the founders of the Khwarzimic Science Society

http://www.khwarzimic.org-

a non-profit organization aiming at developing a science culture in Lahore 's educational institutions. This Association has organized about 150 events of different kinds with the objective of strengthening the popular image of the scientific content and method.




AWARDS

Dr. Sabieh is recipient of several awards including the Rhodes Scholarship (Rhodes Trust), G.A. Paul Scholarship ( University College , Oxford ), Aizaz-e-Sabqat (Government of Pakistan), Nishan-e-Haider Scholarship (GOP), Roll-of-Honour ( Government College , Lahore ) and gold medals from the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and Punjab Textbook Board.




WONDERS...

Khawarzimic science Society is a wonderful organization..anyone from any field ..and from any part of the world..can be its member.... Pakistan uper brains are its members...it was strted by Dr Sabieh and his father Dr Siddiqui ..in 1997 ..with only 2 or 3 memebers..and alhumdullilah ..now .its the biggest non profit pakistani based society...

When he was studying his D Phil..in Oxford as Rhodes Scholar..in vacation when he used to vist Pakistan ...he used to give totally free lectures to pakistan top most educational institutions like ....

* Punjab University ... Lahore
*UET.. Lahore
*FAST.. Lahore
* Government College ..Lahore
*Quada-i-Azam University Islamabad
* COMSAT ...Islamabad

about all which he was studying at Oxford....to keep pakistani students up to date with latest developments nano technology..and quantum computing....

All lectures were free...and large amout of young students benifited from them....

The Khawrzimic society also invited great scholars like Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy..and many other to its totally free public lectures....about new developments in science and physics...

after completing his PhD...He was previously teching ...in

* Quada-i-Azam University ...NCP(Natinal Centre of Physics).. Islamabad

* UET .. Lahore

* COMSAT


officaly..and privately gave some lectures ..in

* Government College Chemistry Department

*CASP(Centre for Advandced Studies in Physics) , Goverment College Lahore ...

* FAST NUCES University ...

* LUMS...

then after 6 months he went for his post doctoral in Berkeley ..under world top NMR(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance..an advanced form of MRI..Magnetic Resonance Imaging used extensively in medical field) ...Professor Alex Pines..of PINES LABS...


He also worked in LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB there..a lab ..which is under US energy department mostly..and very few blessed students get a chance to work there...



Here is the link of Pines Labs....Profesor Alex Pines and his achievements...his students are wordly known as PINEUTS ...I think he is the only Pakistani may be first Muslim ..to be PINENUT...Here is a link of Professor Alex Pines

www.waugh.cchem.berkeley.edu





Flight...

All those who want to know about

Sabieh flight of thoughts ..

his aims ..

his goals ..

and his spellbound English

and purpose of his wonderful ..rather Pakistan most famous non profit science organization..just click on that....


http://www.khwarzimic.org/frontline/perspectives.pdf


http://w ww.khwarzimic.org/frontline/profile.pdf






Previous assignments


Post-doctoral physicist at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and the Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley (I am an old Pinenut - member of Alex Pines's research group.)

Visiting research Associate, National Centre for Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University , Islamabad , Pakistan .


Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad .


Previous courses taught


"Quantum Computing" at Al-Khawarizimi Institute, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore , Oct-Dec 2004.

"Quantum Computation and Information" at National Centre for Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University , Islamabad , Dec 2004.

"Modern Physics" (B.Sc.) at Department of Physics, Punjab University, Lahore 2004.

"Experimental quantum computing" at Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology , Islamabad .

"Photonics" (M.Sc.) at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 2004.



Active Research Themes:

algorithmic cooling of spin states and recyclable spin polarization

singlet lifetime enhancement

power of a single bit of quantum information in the context of NMR

efficient quantum state tomography with a given quorum of observables

geometric phases in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

quantum control using exponential product formulas

quantum computing with electron and nuclear spin states nanoparticle MRI

nanomagnetic spring exchange magnets




So who will follow him!!! Look below the wonders of Sabieh Anwar ,






Role of Nanomaterials in Drug delivery and Cancer at SSE, LUMS ,Lahore.
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/events_workshop_july28-29_2008.htm Seminar:


Seminar:
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Hassna R Ramay,, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 1/24/2008 (month/day/year)


Seminar:
New Directions for Climate Change and Development Policy
Speaker: Dr. John Gowdy, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 3/18/2008 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
Is reality really real?: From Albert Einstein to John Bell and beyond
Speaker: Dr. M. Suhail Zubairy, Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
Venue: University of the Punjab, Lahore
Time and Date: 5/5/2008 (month/day/year)
Seminar:


Seminar:
Quantum Computing: Myth or Reality?
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore.
Venue: University of Management and Technology, 2S 43 South Block UMT, C-II Johar Town Lahore 54770
Time and Date: 7/15/2008 (month/day/year)
Seminar:



Seminar:
DNA Hybridization on Surfaces Seminar:
Understanding Cell Matrix Interactions: From Fundamental Thermodynamics to Applications in Tumor Metastasis
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Hamid Zaman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Time and Date: 8/5/2008 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
DNA Hybridization on Surfaces
Speaker: Fouzia Bano, SISSA International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy.
Venue: Centre for Solid State Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Time and Date: 7/28/2008 (month/day/year)





Events of 2007



Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance: From Brain Tissue to Chloroform Computers
Speaker: Dr. Sabieh Anwar, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Punjab University, New (Quaid-e-Azam) Campus, PU, Lahore
Time and Date: 5/9/2007 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
From Galileo to Darwin: A Story of Science-Religion Interactions
Speaker: Dr. Salman Hameed, Assistant professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College, Massachussetts, United States
Venue: Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Egerton Road, Lahore
Time and Date: 7/14/2007 (month/day/year)



Workshop:
National Workshop on Crystal Structure Determination Using Powder X-ray Diffraction
Speaker: a) Dr. Falak Sher, Dr. N.M. Butt, c) Dr. Saadat A. Siddiqi, d) Dr. Sabieh Anwar, e) Dr. Arshad Bhatti, f) Dr. Umair Manzoor, g) Menges Goetz, Visit: http://www.khwarzimic.org/xrd for details and registration.
Venue: Centre for Solid State Physics, Punjab University, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore
Time and Date: 8/17/2007 (month/day/year




Symposium:
Science and Muslim Civilisation
Speaker: Prof. George Saliba (Columbia University), Prof. Noman-ul-Haque (LUMS) and Prof. Basit Bilal Koshul (LUMS),
Venue: Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Egerton Road, Lahore
Time and Date: 11/4/2007 (month/day/year)



Seminar:
The Shape of Space: M-Branes and 11-Dimensional Geometry
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tasneem Zehra Husain, School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Venue: Department of Physics, Punjab University, Quaid-e-Azam (New) Campus, Lahore
Time and Date: 11/27/2007 (month/day/year)




And all is done by this man...of unbelieveable brain.... for his home country...Pakistan and Ummah... Muhammad Sabieh Anwar...

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? this is the Auqat of 3rd class citizens...mummy daddy qaum..identityless..countryless US Pako blend...bieng naked on airports..but are so Baighairats taht they not raise voice for Dr. Afia....or Goitmo etc...


what can be/ ought to be done against this heinous act?



Daily Kos: State of the Nation


Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After "Obsession" DVD Hits Ohio
by Chris Rodda
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 08:50:29 PM PDT
(From the diaries -- kos)

On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail in Ohio, a "chemical irritant" was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers. This, apparently, is what the scare tactic political campaigning of John McCain's supporters has led to -- Americans perpetrating a terrorist attack against innocent children on American soil.

Chris Rodda's diary :: ::


I read the story as reported by the Dayton Daily News, but this was after I had received an email written by a friend of some of the victims of these American terrorists. The matter of fact news report in the Dayton paper didn't come close to conveying the horrific impact of this unthinkable act like the email I had just read, so I asked the email's author for permission to share what they had written. The author was with one of the families from the mosque -- a mother and two of the small children who were in the room that was gassed -- the day after the attack occurred.

"She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the babies and children were being kept while their mothers prayed together their Ramadan prayers. Panicked mothers ran for their babies, crying for their children so they could flee from the gas that was burning their eyes and throats and lungs. She grabbed her youngest in her arms and grabbed the hand of her other daughter, moving with the others to exit the building and the irritating substance there.

"The paramedic said the young one was in shock, and gave her oxygen to help her breathe. The child couldn't stop sobbing.

"This didn't happen in some far away place -- but right here in Dayton, and to my friends. Many of the Iraqi refugees were praying together at the Mosque Friday evening. People that I know and love.

"I am hurt and angry. I tell her this is NOT America. She tells me this is not Heaven or Hell -- there are good and bad people everywhere.

"She tells me that her daughters slept with her last night, the little one in her arms and sobbing throughout the night. She tells me she is afraid, and will never return to the mosque, and I wonder what kind of country is this where people have to fear attending their place of worship?

"The children come into the room, and tell me they want to leave America and return to Syria, where they had fled to from Iraq. They say they like me, ... , and other American friends -- but they are too afraid and want to leave. Should a 6 and 7 year old even have to contemplate the safety of their living situation?

"Did the anti-Muslim video circulating in the area have something to do with this incident, or is that just a bizarre coincidence? Who attacks women and children?

"What am I supposed to say to them? My words can't keep them safe from what is nothing less than terrorism, American style. Isn't losing loved ones, their homes, jobs, possessions and homeland enough? Is there no place where they can be safe?

"She didn't want me to leave her tonight, but it was after midnight, and I needed to get home and write this to my friends. Tell me -- tell me -- what am I supposed to say to them?"




When acting as a representative of Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), the 501(c)3 non-profit organization that I work for, I cannot engage in political activities. The distribution of Obsession, however, although a political campaign scheme, clearly crosses over into the mission of MRFF. So, I'm going to make two statements here -- one in my capacity as MRFF's Research Director, and another as an individual whose disgust at the vile campaign tactics of John McCain's supporters completely boiled over when I opened up the email about children being gassed.

My statement as MRFF's Research Director:

The presidential campaign edition of the Obsession DVD, currently being distributed by the Clarion Fund, carries the endorsement of the chair of the counter-terrorism department of the U.S. Naval War College, using the name and authority of an official U.S. military institution not only to validate an attack the religion of Islam, but to influence a political campaign. For these reasons, this endorsement has been included in MRFF's second lawsuit against the Department of Defense, which was filed on September 25 in the Federal District Court in Kansas.

My opinion as an individual and thoroughly appalled human being:

John McCain has a moral obligation to publicly censure the Clarion Fund, the organization that produced Obsession and is distributing the DVDs; to denounce the inflammatory, anti-Muslim message of Obsession; and to do everything in his power to stop any further campaign activities by his supporters that have the potential to incite violence.




Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Dueling Partners: Pakistan and America this is the Auqat of 3rd class citizens...mummy daddy qaum..identityless..countryless US Pako blend...bieng naked on airports..but are so Baighairats taht they not raise voice for Dr. Afia....or Goitmo etc...


what can be/ ought to be done against this heinous act?



Daily Kos: State of the Nation


Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After "Obsession" DVD Hits Ohio
by Chris Rodda
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 08:50:29 PM PDT
(From the diaries -- kos)

On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail in Ohio, a "chemical irritant" was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers. This, apparently, is what the scare tactic political campaigning of John McCain's supporters has led to -- Americans perpetrating a terrorist attack against innocent children on American soil.

Chris Rodda's diary :: ::


I read the story as reported by the Dayton Daily News, but this was after I had received an email written by a friend of some of the victims of these American terrorists. The matter of fact news report in the Dayton paper didn't come close to conveying the horrific impact of this unthinkable act like the email I had just read, so I asked the email's author for permission to share what they had written. The author was with one of the families from the mosque -- a mother and two of the small children who were in the room that was gassed -- the day after the attack occurred.

"She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the babies and children were being kept while their mothers prayed together their Ramadan prayers. Panicked mothers ran for their babies, crying for their children so they could flee from the gas that was burning their eyes and throats and lungs. She grabbed her youngest in her arms and grabbed the hand of her other daughter, moving with the others to exit the building and the irritating substance there.

"The paramedic said the young one was in shock, and gave her oxygen to help her breathe. The child couldn't stop sobbing.

"This didn't happen in some far away place -- but right here in Dayton, and to my friends. Many of the Iraqi refugees were praying together at the Mosque Friday evening. People that I know and love.

"I am hurt and angry. I tell her this is NOT America. She tells me this is not Heaven or Hell -- there are good and bad people everywhere.

"She tells me that her daughters slept with her last night, the little one in her arms and sobbing throughout the night. She tells me she is afraid, and will never return to the mosque, and I wonder what kind of country is this where people have to fear attending their place of worship?

"The children come into the room, and tell me they want to leave America and return to Syria, where they had fled to from Iraq. They say they like me, ... , and other American friends -- but they are too afraid and want to leave. Should a 6 and 7 year old even have to contemplate the safety of their living situation?

"Did the anti-Muslim video circulating in the area have something to do with this incident, or is that just a bizarre coincidence? Who attacks women and children?

"What am I supposed to say to them? My words can't keep them safe from what is nothing less than terrorism, American style. Isn't losing loved ones, their homes, jobs, possessions and homeland enough? Is there no place where they can be safe?

"She didn't want me to leave her tonight, but it was after midnight, and I needed to get home and write this to my friends. Tell me -- tell me -- what am I supposed to say to them?"




When acting as a representative of Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), the 501(c)3 non-profit organization that I work for, I cannot engage in political activities. The distribution of Obsession, however, although a political campaign scheme, clearly crosses over into the mission of MRFF. So, I'm going to make two statements here -- one in my capacity as MRFF's Research Director, and another as an individual whose disgust at the vile campaign tactics of John McCain's supporters completely boiled over when I opened up the email about children being gassed.

My statement as MRFF's Research Director:

The presidential campaign edition of the Obsession DVD, currently being distributed by the Clarion Fund, carries the endorsement of the chair of the counter-terrorism department of the U.S. Naval War College, using the name and authority of an official U.S. military institution not only to validate an attack the religion of Islam, but to influence a political campaign. For these reasons, this endorsement has been included in MRFF's second lawsuit against the Department of Defense, which was filed on September 25 in the Federal District Court in Kansas.

My opinion as an individual and thoroughly appalled human being:

John McCain has a moral obligation to publicly censure the Clarion Fund, the organization that produced Obsession and is distributing the DVDs; to denounce the inflammatory, anti-Muslim message of Obsession; and to do everything in his power to stop any further campaign activities by his supporters that have the potential to incite violence.




Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? All 3rd class citizens..identyless countryless..mummy daddy US Pako blend....have nothing of thier own...food..clothes..shoes..house...pays..fees...cars..everthing on interest...sood..credit cards..and loans....


Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) said:

Thre are 72 levels of a interest ..and lightest level is just like equal to do adultery with one's own real Mother !

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? All 3rd class citizens..identyless countryless..mummy daddy US Pako blend....have nothing of thier own...food..clothes..shoes..house...pays..fees...cars..everthing on interest...sood..credit cards..and loans....


Prphet Muhammad(pbuh) said:

Thre are 72 levels of a interest ..and lightest is just like equal to do adultery with one's own real Mother !

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? We 160 million Pakistanis are waiting anxiously when US will break in 50 pieces...

When titanic of its interest based economy sink atlast...

i want to see the same hunger and poverrty in US which i see in Asia and Africa...which is solely created by IMF WB etc etc...

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? By the way..3rd class citizens are jumping up and down alot...

Dr. Afia is also an american citizen...

where your bloody country and its bloody courts

where is your bloody honour of justice..courts..and human rights dramaibazi

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? Whitehead brings new dimension to cancer research
Alyssa Kneller , Whitehead Institute
July 12, 2006


New research at MIT may lead the pharmaceutical industry to take a whole new approach to battling the spread of cancer.

Cancer spreads when a cell breaks away from a primary tumor, settles in a new location and once again divides -- a process known as metastasis.

Pharmaceutical companies evaluating anti-cancer therapeutics typically use simplistic two-dimensional assays, or tests, to measure success in stopping metastasis. In these assays, cells crawl across the surface of a matrix, traveling in a single plane. A new MIT study indicates that this common approach for evaluating anti-cancer therapeutics misses some crucial phenomena.

Working in the labs of Whitehead member and MIT Professor Paul Matsudaira and MIT Professor Douglas Lauffenburger, postdoctoral researcher Muhammad Zaman discovered that cells move quite differently in three dimensions. His study, which focused on human prostate tumor cells, appeared the week of July 10 in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Two-dimensional assays ignore the obstacles that cells face in their natural contexts," said Zaman, who recently became an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "In 3-D, cells move through a thick jungle of fibers, or 'vines,' that hinder forward progress."

Cells must either squeeze through or chop up these putative vines to get anywhere. As a result, they move more slowly in three dimensions.

In an interesting twist, all cells need at least some vines to move, as they latch onto the "branches" with claw-like proteins called integrins and pull themselves forward. When Zaman disabled some of these claws, in a manner analogous to the workings of certain anti-cancer drugs, the cells moving across the top of the jungle canopy (in two dimensions) needed a greater number of vines to keep up their pace, while cells plowing through the jungle instead needed fewer vines to maintain the same speed.

This situation is further complicated in that the cells become dramatically sensitive to the stiffness of the vines when the integrins are disabled and consequently tend to squeeze through the vines rather than pushing them aside.

"Our findings help explain why two-dimensional assays for metastasis-inhibiting drugs do not effectively predict their effects in tissue," said Lauffenburger, who is head of MIT's Biological Engineering Division. He said he believes pharmaceutical companies will eventually use three-dimensional assays, accompanied by appropriate computational models such as one reported by Zaman in a 2005 paper, to determine how drugs affect metastasis.

But technology must improve before more complicated 3-D studies are attempted. For his 3-D study, Zaman worked with one sample at a time, using a special confocal microscope at the Whitehead-MIT BioImaging Center. The microscope divided each specimen into virtual slices, generating a new stack of images every 15 minutes.

"It took me about a year to get enough data because the microscope wasn't designed for high-throughput experiments," he said. Fortunately, the BioImaging Center has one of the most powerful sets of computers at MIT and the imaging processing and analysis went quite quickly.

"Muhammad was successful for two reasons," said Matsudaira, an MIT professor of biology and biological engineering. "His computational model predicted what would happen in virtual experiments and then he was able to go straight to test the predictions with these complicated 3-D experiments. As a result, the sophisticated models of cell movement enhance our understanding of key biological processes, including metastasis."

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Sokol Foundation for Cancer Research.

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Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? About the Speaker : Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and of Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology at UT Austin. He obtained his PhD from the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago, focusing on the protein folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals. His research has been recognized broadly through various international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in 3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate, Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award, given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University. More information about Hamid’s work at UT Austin is available at zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? Hamid Zaman is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at SSe,LUMS,Lahore.

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis? Khwarzimic Science Society invites ....



Seminar:

Understanding Cell Matrix Interactions: From Fundamental Thermodynamics to Applications in Tumor Metastasis


Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Hamid Zaman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Venue: Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore.

Time and Date: 8/5/2008 (month/day/year)

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Introduction:


Cells reside and operate in a complex and dynamic extra-cellular matrix. The mechanical, structural and chemical properties of the matrix regulate a variety of cellular functions including signaling, adhesion, migration as well as invasion and metastasis in tumor systems. Unfortunately cell-matrix interactions have traditionally been studied in the context of artificial 2D environments, which are far from in vivo conditions. As a result, our understanding of the complex interactions at the cell-matrix interface have been quite limited. In particular, the mechano-chemical effects of the matrix, the proteolytic pathways and surface receptor dynamics on a 3D surface that are critical in invasion and tumor metastasis, and can not be fully studied in a 2D environment. In order to overcome the limited powers of observation in 2D, we utilize a combination of high resolution and high throughput confocal microscopy, bulk and micro-rheological measurements and multi-scale simulations rooted in statistical and continuum mechanics. Using an interdisciplinary approach allows us to understand and quantify the mechanical and chemical roles of the matrix in regulating signaling, adhesion and motility. Our results demonstrate that both cell structure and cell function are strikingly different in 3D than in 2D and that cellular response to minor mechanical changes in its extra-cellular environment is amplified in 3D than in 2D environments. Our experimental results are complemented by multi-scale simulations, that probe the physical foundations of cell-matrix interactions from the nano to the macro level. Our hybrid approach, combining high-resolution experimental and computational techniques demonstrates how a balance of cellular parameters (e.g. integrin expression and MMP activity) co-operate with matrix properties (e.g. composition, stiffness and porosity) to regulate adhesion, invasion and motility of tumor cells in native like environments.