Pakistan world’s eighth most dangerous country

Update: 2015-04-01 23:41 GMT
Pakistan has emerged as the world's eighth most dangerous country in a latest analysis of the top 10 danger zones based on terrorist and rebel activity.

The Intel Center's 'Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries' list as of March 2015 is topped by the Middle East, with Iraq and Syria ranked No 1 and 2 respectively.

IntelCenter's Country Threat Index (CTI) examines the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents and the number killed and injured in a country and runs it through an algorithm to assign the country its CTI.

The higher the CTI the greater the risk. In India's neighbourhood, Pakistan with a CTI of 122 is joined by Afghanistan with a CTI of 186 and ranked fifth. -based company working for intelligence agencies said in a statement.It does not evaluate other risk factors such as crime and political instability," it said. 

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