LAHORE – Pakistan’s military has been ranked as the 9th most powerful Armyin the world, according to the 2022 World Military Strength Ranking.
The Global Firepower has issued the ranking, utilising over 50 individualfactors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex (‘PwrIndx’) score withcategories ranging from military might and financials to logisticalcapability and geography.
This year, Pakistan jumped one place to secure ninth place out of 140countries in the annual index.
Last year, Pakistan Army had been ranked 10th most powerful army in theworld after it jumped five places since 2019.
“For 2022, Pakistan is ranked 9 of 140 out of the countries considered forthe annual GFP review. It holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.1572 (a score of0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’)” GFP said in a statement.
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Pakistan has been ranked above Turkey, Australia, Brazil, Canada and othercountries.
The heightened PowerIndex score is 0.0000, which is an unrealistic goal forany country. However, the closer a country is to this number, the morepowerful its military.
According to Global Firepower’s ranking, the US army is most powerful inthe world, followed by Russia and China.