Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 ’failed states’ in the world. Surprisingly it is worse than Afghanistan and worst African countries also. This is revealed in a new world survey released last week.
Foreign Policy magazine’s 2nd annual index of failed states gives a horror picture of South Asia. Apart from India four other South Asian countries are ranked like this Berma (18th), Bangladesh(19th), Nepal(20th) and Sri Lanka(25th). Thus all neighborhoods of India are in alarming condition that may put India in trouble.
There are 12 indicators which are being used for this survey. They are as following
F1 - Mounting Demographic Pressures
F2 - Massive Movement of Refugees and IDPs
F3 - Legacy of Vengeance - Seeking Group Grievance
F4 - Chronic and Sustained Human Flight
F5 - Uneven Economic Development along Group Lines
F6 - Sharp and/or Severe Economic Decline
F7 - Criminalization or Delegitimization of the State
F8 - Progressive Deterioration of Public Services
F9 - Widespread Violation of Human Rights
F10 - Security Apparatus as ’’State within a State’’
F11 - Rise of Factionalized Elites
F12 - Intervention of Other States or External Actors
Pakistan has failed in all most all the factors. It has failed on political, army and social factors but shown a slight better condition on economic factors. Socially Pakistan is very unstable because of their most of the population is Muslim. But there is tensions between the majority Sunni (77%) and minority Shia (20%), which always leads to violence. There are also reports of violence between Muslims and Christian and Hindu groups.
Top Ten unstable countries in world are given below alongwith their respective scores
1 Sudan 112.3
2 DRC 110.1
3 Cote d’Ivoire 109.2
4 Iraq 109
5 Zimbabwe 108.9
6 Chad 105.9
7 Somalia 105.9
8 Haiti 104.6
9 Pakistan 103.1
10 Afghanistan 99.8
Here is indicator wise score for worst 3 courtiers, Pakistan, India and Best 3 countries.
Rank 1 2 9 93 145 146
Name Sudan DRC Pakistan India Sweden Norway
F1 9.6 9.5 9.3 8.8 3 3
F2 9.7 9.5 9.3 2.8 2.5 1.5
F3 9.7 9.1 9.8 6.9 1 1
F4 9.1 8 8.1 7.1 2 1
F5 9.2 9 8.9 8.5 2 2
F6 7.5 8.1 7 5 1.2 1.8
F7 9.5 9 8.5 4.8 1 1
F8 9.5 9 7.5 6.7 1 1
F9 9.8 9.5 8.5 5.4 1.5 1.5
F10 9.8 9.8 9.1 4.5 1 1
F11 9.1 9.6 9.1 5.7 1 1
F12 9.8 10 9.2 4.2 1 1
Total 112.3 110.1 103.1 70.4 18.2 16.8
Let’s check India, China and Pakistan for their performance in last two years. This will show how India has performed.
2005 2006 2005 2006 2005 2006
Rank 76 93 34 9 75 57
Name India India Pak Pak China China
F1 8 8.8 5 9.3 6.8 8.5
F2 6.2 2.8 5 9.3 5 5.1
F3 5.4 6.9 6.9 8.6 7.4 8
F4 6.7 7.1 8 8.1 6 6.6
F5 9 8.5 9 8.9 9 9.2
F6 5.8 5 3.3 7 0.5 4.5
F7 4 4.8 9.8 8.5 8.6 8.5
F8 5.1 6.7 7.5 7.5 2.9 7.3
F9 5.9 5.4 8.1 8.5 8.9 9
F10 2.4 4.5 9 9.1 7 5.5
F11 6.8 5.7 9.3 9.1 8.4 8
F12 4.2 4.2 8.5 9.2 1.8 2.3
Total 69.5 70.4 89.4 103.1 72.3 82.5
Note : higher the rank better the condition. But Higher the total, worse the condition.
Among all its neighbors India is the only country which has improved its condition which is good for us. On the other hand Pakistan and China performance has gone bad to worse. Pakistan scores heavily in all categories to reach total of 103.1 out of 120. China has also scored 82.5 which is much ahead of expectation.
Surprisingly countries like Liberia, North Korea, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Rwanda are rated more stable than Pakistan. The survey reveals that Pakistan is not able to control its tribal areas, where there is civil war plus terrorism is growing. The 2005 earthquake has also put Pakistan on back foot.
Disclaimer : All statistics are taken from official website of Foreign Policy magazine’s