 A government spokesman dismissed on Wednesday a report that listed Pakistan as one of the worldÂ’s most unstable countries, slamming it as a shoddy piece of political propaganda masquerading as intellectual research.
| And I dismiss all reports of my corpulence and sloth as similar shoddy pieces of political propaganda masquerading as empirical observation. |
The Failed States Index complied by Foreign Policy magazine, in conjunction with the Washington-based Fund for Peace think-thank, ranks Pakistan in ninth position, one place ahead of war-torn Afghanistan. Pakistan has gone up the list from last year, when it was placed at number 34. Sudan tops this yearÂ’s list. |