By BDNEWS, Dhaka:The Wednesday's countrywide serial bomb blasts once again prompted the Indian media to smear propaganda against Bangladesh dubbing it as a "failed state".
"Wednesday's terror attacks in Bangladesh only reinforce one fact: India is ringed with failed states," commented Times News Network, a subsidiary of 'Times of India' newspapers group, in its report carried out Friday.

The paper referring to a recent study by 'Foreign Policy', journal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Fund for Peace ranked 60 states in the world that are in danger of going over the edge -- apart from Sri Lanka, every one of India's neighbour is a failed or failing state.

"Bangladesh is in a critical state at 17th place, while Pakistan is at 34th along with Nepal at 35th while Myanmar and Bhutan are at 23rd and 26th places respectively, with Afghanistan in the dangerous category at 11th place," the report maintained.

The report said the failed states index ranks countries on 12 economic, social and political parameters and includes demographic pressures, refugees and displaced persons, group grievance, human flight, uneven development, economic decline delegitimisation of state, public services, human rights, security apparatus, factionalised elites and external intervention.

Pakistan is failing on economic, political and military parameters, while Bangladesh remains well in danger levels on numerous criteria. The worry, the study says, is not about states amassing power, it's the absence of it, the report maintained. "Failed states export many unsavoury things, including international terrorists, large-scale immigrants, drugs, weapons, etc, said Times News Network.

About Bangladesh the report said, "Bangladesh sinking into Islamic fundamentalism will create the inevitable pressures in India's fragile north-eastern states."

"In fact, it is only episodes like the blasts in Bangladesh or LTTE's killing of Sri Lankan minister last weekend which puts the spotlight on countries like Bangladesh, otherwise the slide into instability in countries like Saudi Arabia (45), Egypt (38) and even Russia (59) are rarely documented," it said.