For Saldi Isra, a college professor in West Sumatra, enough was enough when he saw that one of his local provincial representatives traded his ratty motor bike with a flashy sports car. In any case he was well aware of the rampant corruption and bribery – An after math of Indonesia’s push for transfer of sweeping power to local representatives

“Right now, many Muslim Americans are worried because threats and harassment against their community are on the rise,” President Obama recently wrote in a commentary for Religion News Service…

“Root of all—really—all of Pakistan’s problems is the quality of those who run Pakistan”.

Granted! This has been fairly consistently true for Pakistan’s leadership, civilian or military throughout its six and a half decades of existence.