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Pakistan was ranked as the 8th most dangerous country of the world in the Country Threat Index (CTI); a ranking compiled by Washington based private counter-terrorism intelligence contractor.
The index determines the ranking of countries through algorithm, considering factors like the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents, and the number of individuals killed and injured over the past 30 days .
Iraq came at the top of the list with a CTI score of 576 followed by Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Libya. However, Pakistan attained far better position than all of these countries scoring 162 on the CTI
According to the index, Pakistan has more threats of terrorism than Egypt and Kenya, that scored 95 and 86 in the index respectively.
There are a total of 45 countries with a score greater than zero, while the average score is 74.