Pakistan eighth most dangerous country in the world: report

[wiqi21]

LONDON: Pakistan has emerged as the world’s eighth most dangerous country, according to IntelCenter’s list of “Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries”.

The Middle East topped the list as of March 2015, with Iraq and Syria ranking No 1 and 2 respectively, given the current political situation in the war-torn countries.

IntelCenter, a Washington-based company working for intelligence agencies, Country Threat Index (CTI) examines the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents and the number of people killed and injured in a country over the past month and runs it through an algorithm to assign the country its CTI.
Out of the top 10 most dangerous countries, Pakistan had a CTI of 122 is joined by Afghanistan with a CTI of 186. The neighbouring country ranked fifth on the list. The higher the CTI, the greater is the risk.

Source: IntelCenter


“A low CTI does not necessarily reflect the absence of risk as the US in the lead-up to 9/11 would have had a low CTI. It does, however, reflect a lower level of activity over the preceding 30 days (of the analysis), which means high-volume activity is unlikely but one-off events are always a possibility,” IntelCenter said in a statement.

CTI should not be the sole measure of risk in a country but should merely be factored into consideration, the statement said.
“The CTI is based solely on terrorist and rebel related activity. It does not evaluate other risk factors such as crime and political instability,” it further said.

The countries completing the top 10 include Nigeria (3rd), Somalia (4th), Libya (6th), Yemen (7th), Ukraine (9th) and Egypt (10th).

The Global CTI serves as an overall indicator of global terrorist and rebel activity and is calculated by adding up each individual country’s CTI, the statement said.

Pakistan eighth most dangerous country in the world: report - The Express Tribune

 

[wiseone2]

LONDON: Pakistan has emerged as the world’s eighth most dangerous country, according to IntelCenter’s list of “Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries”.

The Middle East topped the list as of March 2015, with Iraq and Syria ranking No 1 and 2 respectively, given the current political situation in the war-torn countries.

IntelCenter, a Washington-based company working for intelligence agencies, Country Threat Index (CTI) examines the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents and the number of people killed and injured in a country over the past month and runs it through an algorithm to assign the country its CTI.
Out of the top 10 most dangerous countries, Pakistan had a CTI of 122 is joined by Afghanistan with a CTI of 186. The neighbouring country ranked fifth on the list. The higher the CTI, the greater is the risk.

Source: IntelCenter


“A low CTI does not necessarily reflect the absence of risk as the US in the lead-up to 9/11 would have had a low CTI. It does, however, reflect a lower level of activity over the preceding 30 days (of the analysis), which means high-volume activity is unlikely but one-off events are always a possibility,” IntelCenter said in a statement.

CTI should not be the sole measure of risk in a country but should merely be factored into consideration, the statement said.
“The CTI is based solely on terrorist and rebel related activity. It does not evaluate other risk factors such as crime and political instability,” it further said.

The countries completing the top 10 include Nigeria (3rd), Somalia (4th), Libya (6th), Yemen (7th), Ukraine (9th) and Egypt (10th).

The Global CTI serves as an overall indicator of global terrorist and rebel activity and is calculated by adding up each individual country’s CTI, the statement said.

Pakistan eighth most dangerous country in the world: report - The Express Tribune

Other than Ukraine and Nigeria partly all of them are Muslim countries

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Pakistan was relatively safe country until USSR invaded Afghanistan and Mujahideens were armed to fight the Russians. We are still facing armed threat since Pakistan Army continues to arm Talibans and these filter down to the terrorists. Saudi Arabia has also created sectarian terrorists in Pakistan.

 

[Hiptullha]

Other than Ukraine and Nigeria partly all of them are Muslim countries

Well, if we're going to look into the history/culture/demographics of the countries, we should also remember that Iraqi was invaded in 2003 by a US coalition force which led to 100,000+ deaths, Yemen, Somalia and Libya from a civil war, Afghanistan fought a long war against the Soviets, and Egypt had a revolution.

Shut up u Hindu pagan!!!!!! Islam is perfect religion and the true religion of peace!

Useless and cheap comment. If you're going to join this forum, try to be productive.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Shut up u Hindu pagan!!!!!! Islam is perfect religion and the true religion of peace!

Iraq is a mixed bag. They should share only half the blame.

Before 2003, there was a tyrant that everyone feared.
After 2005 there is a Government that no one cares for. Big Apple gets half the blame. The rest goes to the people of Iraq who suddenly forgot the art of living together without blowing each other up.

 

[Daneshmand]

Other than Ukraine and Nigeria partly all of them are Muslim countries

It is not Islam per se. It is the Takfiris and Wahabis who are to blame. All the bloodshed you see whether in Pakistan or in Iraq or in Africa, they are behind it.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Other than Ukraine and Nigeria partly all of them are Muslim countries

Nigeria is another mixed bag. There is an ongoing conflict between Islamists and Christians and Christian extremists.

 

[Hiptullha]

It is not Islam per se. It is the Takfiris and Wahabis who are to blame. All the bloodshed you see whether in Pakistan or in Iraq or in Africa, they are behind it.

Don't kid yourself, lad. Before the '80s, the prime supporters of revolutionaries, militant groups and dictators who would destabilize the entire region were the surprisingly "secular" Leftists and socialists. And don't get me started on Iran who were already well-versed in the field of spreading terrorism while Saudi Arabia was toddling.

 

[duhastmish]

Why do Brits involve in these idiotic studies.
Obviously there must be a rational and more over it changes with time like Yemen war.

It's stupid idea just to defame other countries or individuals where Brits find solace

 

[Hiptullha]

Just so you know - there has been exactly one incident when Iran was involved in terrorism in India. They were warned...and they have never again done anything again.

Iran is like a saint compared to Saudi Arabia when it comes to spreading terrorism. Almost all terrorism in India is funded by Arabian money.

Countries like Iran have been funding militant groups for decades before Saudi Arabia. People who like to paint a picture of an evil-warmongering-salafist-wahabi forget that organisations like Al Qaeda were perfecting that tactics of organisations like Hezbollah and Abu Nidal.

 

[Hiptullha]

I have information only on the Indian subcontinent. In here, Iran has done almost nothing.
On the other hand the Saudi/Arab money has been funneled using Pakistani logistics to create a terror trail across South Asia- whether that be the Taliban in Afghanistan to JeI in Bangladesh.

Then you're forgetting Pakistan and Afghanistan, where Iran was heavily involved in supporting their own militant factions. Remember the Northern Alliance? They were friends of the Iranians, and no less brutal than the Taliban. And who are you to say that Iran doesn't support the Taliban or Sunni extremists? Wikileaks has published reports of Iranian cooperation with organisations such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban. One of the leaders of a prominent Sunni group, Hekymatar, who was considered to be one of the most brutal and violent Mujahideen fled to Iran when the Taliban took over.

 

[Screambowl]

Pakistan was relatively safe country until USSR invaded Afghanistan and Mujahideens were armed to fight the Russians. We are still facing armed threat since Pakistan Army continues to arm Talibans and these filter down to the terrorists. Saudi Arabia has also created sectarian terrorists in Pakistan.

Pakistan is in this condition not because of Soviets or USA . but because of ..


1) To be in a good book of all Arab nations
2) To be in a good book of USA
3) To Use Talibani factions in desire for Kashmir in Kashmir. (Kashmir is weakness of Pakistan)
4) Incompetent leaders
5) Military intervention in Politics.

 

[Hiptullha]

Without a doubt Iran supported NA, but the question is do you put NA as a terrorism spreading entity or just a violent one. For example, the drug cartels in LatAm are extremely violent, but they don't export an ideology of death and destruction over other lands and serve to inspire others into joining this kind of movement.

Similarly, while the Taliban was a religiously motivated terrorist entity, NA on the other hand was just a power hungry violent group. It is important to note the gradations and motivations of different groups.

First of all, if we're going by your terms, the Taliban is not a terrorist organisation, because they didn't export terror. They were restricted to their region of birth. They were, however, allied with Al Qaeda which would be considered a terrorist organisation under your definition as they were involved in "exporting" terrorism. Now you're probably going to say, since they were allied with Al Qaeda, they're also terrorist. I'll remind you that there were plenty of Northern Alliance leaders who were on friendly terms with Al Qaeda and active in the Global Islamist movement.

And where did you get the impression that the Northern Alliance was not religiously motivated!? They were made up of the Mujahideen who had overthrown the Soviets solely to bring in Islamic law! Taliban, on the other hand was not originally formed as an uprising to crush the atheist Communists, but to get rid of the warlords who had dominated Kandahar, unite the country, and welcome Zahir Shah. Of course, things changed later on.

I am merely talking about spreading terrorism. Would you agree or disagree with the assertion that Iran has not been remotely involved in spreading terror on the scale as the gulf states have been?

This I concede, but then again, we have to look at the pool of recruits these Gulf countries have, and it comes from the wide scale of devastation which countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya had left behind them, with their leaders not only kickstarting insurgencies in neighbouring states, but at times, also nurturing groups on their own soil to combat their rivals and opponents.

And we all deal with the devil to attain means and ends. US also talks to Taliban whereas US is well aware that they are Satan incarnate for all Islamist entities.

No excuse. This can be used to justify the covert actions of all countries. If anything, I can just defend Saudi Arabian donors with this point. They're simply crushing what's left of their enemies by supporting factions in Syria and Iraq. Who can blame them? Sometimes you just gotta deal with the devil, right?

 

[Jaanbaz]

Other than Ukraine and Nigeria partly all of them are Muslim countries

And? In that case India is probably the most dangerous place for foreign females.

 

[Hiptullha]

And? In that case India is probably the most dangerous place for foreign females.

Better to ignore cheap shitposters to be honest. These guys know they don't have the mental capacity to say anything useful so they just make remarks like this.