Pew's Global Attitude Survey of Pakistan

[Realist]

The Pews research institute is an American organisation that monitors global attitudes. They go to different countries and find out the general attitudes of the populace to many things.

I found the 2010 survey carried out in Pakistan. 2000 people were sampled across four provinces and asked a variety of questions which were summarized.

Please don't just dismiss it as American crap, the Pews Centre is pretty reputable.

Here is the PDF

http://pewglobal.org/2010/07/29/concern-about-extremist-threat-slips-in-pakistan/1/

The questions asked

Are you worried about extremists taking over Pakistan?

How favourably do you rate the following groups?

What is the greatest threat to Pakistan?

How bad is the current economic climate? Will it worsen?

Do you agree with the following laws/punishments?

 

[Realist]

Is suicide bombing ever justified?

Comparison with other countries regarding justified suicide bombs

Do you agree with drone attacks by the US?

Do you support US involvment in the battle against extremists in Pakistan?

Should NATO troops remain in Afghanistan?

 

[Realist]

Should the Pakistani Army be used to fight extremists groups?

How favourable is Barak Obama?

What is your view of the US?

How important are the ties between the US and Pakistan?
(Survey before raymond case)

What is your opinion of US policies towards India and Pakistan?

US/China as enemy/Partners?

How much aid does the US give to Pakistan?

 

[Realist]

Do you want improved relations with India?

The situation in Kashmir is...

Is there a struggle between modernizers and fundamentalists?

Role of Islam in the political life of Pakistan?

 

[Realist]

Is it good/bad that Islam plays a large/small role in political life?

How satisfied are you with national conditions?

Economic conditions?

In 12 months, the economy will...

How big of a problem is...

National problems by party and region

 

[Realist]

Favourability of Pakistani leaders.

Views of Sharif vs Zardari

Other leaders (Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Army Commander)

Influence of groups/institutions

Survery details

 

[Malik Usman]

In whole survey you are missing one thing..........all questions are around Talbinaization, Alqaida and Indian Threat...........But who did survey didn't asked what Pakistani peoples think about American's who American's are................I am sure you will find in survey American's are bigger threat than Al-Qaida or Taliban...

 

[Realist]

In whole survey you are missing one thing..........all questions are around Talbinaization, Alqaida and Indian Threat...........But who did survey didn't asked what Pakistani peoples think about American's who American's are................I am sure you will find in survey American's are bigger threat than Al-Qaida or Taliban...

Not at all. There is quite a lot on our attitudes towards the US. Look again.

 

[A1Kaid]

Good post, informative.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

It is telling when 91% people think terrorism is the biggest problem and an equal percentage thinks lack of jobs is...quite indicative of what pushes the youth to terrorism in the first place.

Now their image may be beyond salvage in Pakistan, but it would be an important lesson learnt for the US to push the economic interests of a country they wish to make a Laos of rather than greasing its politicians' palms with 'aid'.

 

[rockstarIN]

It shows Pakistani thinks India is the biggest threat, than taliban...

Also majority wants to improve the relations with India, also very much imotional with Kashmir,

|Very informative post..

 

[DesiGuy]

lot of Pakistanis thinks india as a major thread than their current situation......what a......

 

[StingRoy]

lot of Pakistanis thinks india as a major thread than their current situation......what a......

What can we say.... on the other hand here is a stat about threat perception in India. If you include both the threat from LET and Pakistan, it amounts to 75% in total. But the fact is that we have a larger threat from the religious extremism emanating from Pakistan rather than Pakistan itself.

 

[ares]

This was the most surprising part of the survey for me..Pakistani majority's mentality seems very close to that of Taliban's.

 

[Ababeel]

The survey shows clearly where Zardari & Co stands. It's good to see that majority of people support influence of Military, Religious Leaders, Media and Judiciary as they all are playing a positive role.