Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel most negatively rated countries in the world

Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel most negatively rated countries in the world

Recently, in a poll conducted on BBC World Services, Pakistan was rated as the second in the list of most negatively rated countries. About 24,090 people worldwide participated in the survey.

As per the details, citizen from over 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. The polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country,
together with the Program on International Policy Attitude (PIPA) at the University of Maryland.

About 51% of the respondents rated Pakistan as a negative perceived country, and thus, put in just above Iran which was rated negative by about 55 % of the total respondents.

Interestingly, among all, Pakistan was the only country that rated its own influence as negative. However, as compared to last year, a negative view about Pakistan was declined by 4 %.

The survey depicted that a negative review of Pakistan prevailed in the answers mainly from Western countries. About 75% Americans, 69 % Canadians and 72% Australian said that Pakistan’s influence in the world was mainly negative.

The pattern of negative perception was somewhat similar in the Western countries. The view of Pakistan expressed by India, the arch-rival, was also quite negative.

Sharing reasons for such rating, most of the respondents blamed Pakistan’s foreign policy and the poor treatment of its citizens for such widespread negative image of the country.

Out of all 22 countries surveyed, Indonesia appeared to be the only country that had positive views about Pakistan.

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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen on May 17 2012. Filed under Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry