Pakistan, Aug. 8 -- "Popularity should be on a scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."-Orson Welles

What an apt observation by John F Kennedy when he said: "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

If politics is considered undesirable by the general public then why would someone want to become a politician? Why, say an electrical engineer leaves the security of his steady job and moves to a most unpredictable zone of activity or what drives an affluent stock broker from the comfort of his villa to venture into the uneasy realm of politics? These are questions that do ba...