WASHINGTON, June 21 : Just three places below Afghanistan, Pakistan
has been ranked the 10th most failed state in the 2010 Failed State Index
released by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine on Monday.
The list is topped by Somalia, followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Chad.
India is ranked 87 in a list of 177 countries. In India's immediate
neighbourhood, Burma has been placed at 13, Sri Lanka (22) and Nepal 25.
China is ranked at 57th place. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list.
"Shattered Somalia has been the No.1 failed state for three years running,
and none of the current top 10 has shown much improvement, if any, since
FOREIGN POLICY and the Fund for Peace began publishing the index in 2005,"
it said.
"Altogether, the top 10 slots have rotated among just 15 unhappy countries
in the index's six years. State failure, it seems, is a chronic condition,"
the magazine said.
Afghanistan and Iraq traded places on the index as both states contemplated
the exit of US combat troops.
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