89 percent Pakistanis willing to fight for motherland

Islamabad
According to a global survey from WIN/Gallup International, Pakistan ranks third in the ranking of countries where people are willing to fight for their country.
A global survey from WIN/Gallup International shows that 61 per cent of those polled across 64 countries would be willing to fight for their country, while 27 per cent would not. However, there are significant differences by region. Pakistan ranks significantly high in the ranking of countries where people are very willing to fight for their country.
It ranks as the third most willing country in this regard, falling behind Fiji and Morocco only, with an overwhelming 89 per cent people saying they will fight for their country of need be.
Willingness to fight is highest in the M.E.N.A. region (83 per cent) while it is lowest in Western Europe (25 per cent).
A history of those countries in recent conflict provides an interesting comparison. The Japanese (11 per cent) are the least likely of 64 countries polled to be willing to fight for their country. Results from Germany are similar — 18 per cent willing to fight. By comparison these numbers are considerably lower than in the UK (27 per cent) and France (29 per cent). India is also ranked high falling in the category of countries where more than 75 per cent people are willing to fight for their country and raked 9th in the world ranking.
A majority (52 per cent) of women surveyed across the globe said they would be willing to fight (vs. 67 per cent) among men. Those aged 18-34 years (66 per cent) are the most willing. Of the variety of religious denominations covered in the survey we see those Muslims (78 per cent) are most willing to fight for their country.
Jean-Marc Leger, President of WIN/Gallup International Association, said: “One hundred years on from the start of the First Great War we find that 61 per cent of the world’s citizens are willing to fight for their country. However, the true story is in the regional comparison and in a time of such turmoil in the Middle East it is noticeable that willingness to fight is highest in the MENA region.”
Another interesting Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan says that 35 per cent of Pakistanis feel that teaching female teachers to use weapons will not make any difference to security of schools and students. Teachers in Pakistan are being given firearms training and they are allowed to take guns into the classroom in a bid to strengthen security following a Taliban massacre at Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16. Heavily armed militants killed 150 people, 132 of them children, in the bloody attack that led to extraordinary security measure in educational institutions all over the country. Security has already been strengthened for schools across the country, including by building elevated boundary walls with steel wire fencing and increasing the number of police. Private schools have been ordered to deploy extra security guards.
In Gilani Research Foundation Survey, a nationally representative sample of adult men and women, from across the four provinces was asked, “Recently, after the Peshawar tragedy, female teachers in Peshawar schools are being taught to use weapons. Do you feel that giving teachers weapons will improve the security situation for schools and students, or worsen it, or will it make no difference?” In response to this question, 29 per cent respondents said that teaching female teachers to use weapons will improve the security situation for schools and students, 33 per cent respondents said that it will worsen the security situation, while 35 per cent believe it will make no difference and 3 per cent did not respond.