LAHORE: Pakistan, having the ranking of 107, emerges as one of the worst performers when it comes to eradicating hunger among other South Asian countries followed by India, which ranked 97 in the list of 118 developing nations.
Except Pakistan and India — the worst performers in dealing with hunger, all neighbouring and regional nations such as China (29), Nepal (72), Myanmar (75), Sri Lanka (84) and Bangladesh (90) improved their respective rankings significantly.
Several countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh who have lacked agriculture base, performed very well and improved their ranking drastically in recent years and surpassed Pakistan with a clear margin in the fight against hunger.
The 2016 Global Hunger Index report said more than 45 countries — including India, Pakistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Afghanistan — will still have “moderate” to “alarming” hunger scores in 2030, “far short of the goal to end hunger by that year, if menace of hunger declines at the same rate as the report finds it has since 1992.”