World's Five Most Unstable Countries

Global Peace Index (GPI) report was released yesterday . It has list of 149 countries and rates on basis of various criteria juding peacefulness in the country.

While newzealand , Iceland,japan are top most countries as far as being peaceful is concerned in the index , USA comes 85th in the list , five ranks behind china while India has slipped to 128th position in list of 149.

Here is the list of top five most unstable countries as per GPI-2010.

1) Iraq :

Iraq comes last in the list of peaceful countries. It has been fourth consecutive times that Iraq has been ranked bottom. War torn Iraq has had many terror attacks , ethnic violence , high crime rates since USA's invasion of Iraq in 2003.Officially more than 90,000 have died in last seven years. Though these figures are said to be low than actual figures. Out of 90,000 , 37% have been killed due to USA's invasion while another us led forces , 36% have died due to criminal violence!!!!. Iraq currently had democratic government and recently elections were held in the country. New Parliament would begin its first session on june 14th.

2) Somalia :

Somalia pirates have become nuisance for the world. A poor country has been effected by civil war , weak government , Islamic extremism. It ranks 148th in the list.

3) Afghanistan :

Peace is what has been mostly missing for this country since last 30 years. Once it was invaded by ussr , it became proxy for game between two superpowers. Whose who of world of terror , like bin laden , mullah omar , haqqini , are by product of this game between usa and ussr. This land locked country doesnot seemed to be moving towards brighter future any time soon.

Taliban still has capabilities to return while NATO and world community are trying their best to have stable Afghanistan. USA  is planning to withdraw by july 2011 , countries like India , Pakistan , china and Russia are watching closely.

Return of Taliban would be biggest blow to central asia and subcontinent region. Taliban does not have ambition of expansion but return of Taliban would be victory of extremist and al qaeda would get boost.

NATO has target of having 1,34,000 trained forces of local afghans who in turn will ensure the safety of country and make sure that peace prevails , skeptics believe Taliban is tough force to fight and trained afghans might not be good enough for them.

Corrupted democratic government is not doing much good to people of Afghanistan and allied forces either.

4) Sudan :

Largest country in africa comes 146 th in the global peace index-2010. Darfur Conflict has killed more than 19,000 people as per sudan government while many international agencies put number quiet high .It ranges from 1 lakh to 4.5 lakhs!!!!

5) Pakistan :

Pakistan is nuclear equipped country which is playing important role in Afghanistan. Pakistan's democracy has time and again being hindered by military take overs. Last military dictator was pervez. Good news for pakistan is that now it has democratic government and more importantly assertive judiciary. Pakistan is fighting its own war with Pakistan Taliban. In one year pakistan has made progress in its war against Taliban. It has neutralized swat and has had success in south waziristan. It is expected to then begin fight in north waziristan . Its main challenge would come in south punjab . Another challenge Pakistan faces in extremism. Attacks on ahamadis recently was reminder that lot of work is needed to be done.