Source & Credit: The Express Tribune
By Express: June 20, 2010
WASHINGTON: The US-based magazine Foreign Policy, has ranked Pakistan 10th on the Failed State Index, 2010.
The list comprises 177 countries, and is topped by Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan and Chad.
India is ranked 87, while China comes in at 57. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list.
The magazine says Somalia has been the number one failed state for three years running, and none of the current top 10 have shown much improvement.
It says altogether, the top 10 slots have rotated among just 15 unhappy countries for the past six years.
The Foreign Policy magazine index ranks Pakistan 8.1 on demographic pressures, 8.9 on refugees and IDPs, 8.9 on human rights and 9.3 on external intervention.
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