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‘Pakistan no failed state’
A government spokesman dismissed on Wednesday a report that listed Pakistan as one of the world’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 year’s list.
Posted by: Fred 2006-05-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=150667