Pakistanis least protected against terrorism, armed conflict: ::
The people of Pakistan are the least protected in the world against terrorism and armed conflict, according to a recently released report on the rule of law over the globe by World Justice Project.
The revelation is part of Rule of Law Index for 2017-2018 in which the US organization ranked Pakistan at the bottom of the Order and Security performance indicator in their annual evaluation.
The country was listed 105 out of 113 nations worldwide in the overall classification and Pakistan managed to score only 0.39/1, with 1 indicating the strongest adherence to the rule of law.
According to the non-profit group, the released judgment was aimed at providing a portrait of the rule of law in many countries by measuring eight indicators based on the experience of the general public and the opinion of subject experts.
The eight indicators were constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, and criminal justice.
While the country fared poorly in almost all indicators which aspire to quantify adherence to the rule of law, according to the American group, the performance of Pakistan in relation to order and security was especially noteworthy, where it scored only 0.32.
However, the report based on the catalog also claimed that Pakistan was among a handful of lower-middle-income countries in which the rule of law was improving. This was largely due to the fact that Pakistan had improved its score of the previous year by 0.01, and as a result, moved up one place in the rankings.
Scandinavian countries almost exclusively subjugated the top portion of the index, with Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden occupying the first four positions. European countries like Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Austria also feature in the top ten.
At the bottom of the index were countries like Venezuela, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Egypt. African nations Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia are also ranked low, along with other nations like Bolivia and Pakistan.
The report has not only tried to rank countries based on the perceived law and order situation but also categorized them according to their region and the mean income of the population. The former is meant to put the domestic plight of a nation into the wider regional circumstance, while the latter aims to understand the relationship between development and conflict.
Region-specific analysis of the index indicated that European and North American countries were way ahead of the rest of the world in terms of implementing the rule of law in their region, with countries in these areas scoring an average of 0.74 on the listing. East Asian and Pacific nations were second most orderly, and scored an average of 0.60, while Sub-Saharan African countries and South Asian nations were ranked bottom here as well, with average scores of 0.47 and 0.45 respectively.
If we analyse Rule of Law Index 2017-2018 in light of the average income of countries, the results provided an interesting correlation between prosperity and law and order. For example, World Justice Project revealed that low-income countries from Africa and South Asia scored 0.45 on the annual estimate and featured at the bottom part of the index. High-income countries from Europe, North America and East Asia scored an average of 0.74, and were ranked in the upper half of the index.
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