Communication via social media has massively flourished
SHIKARPUR: Communication via social media has massively flourished in the past few years, where it has given way to socio-economic progress it has simultaneously diversified the conventional threats the countries usually face, hence resulting in warfare that is hybrid in nature primarily due to the nature of threats and concerns involved. However, hybrid warfare is an act of non-linear conflict.
Considering this new wave of hybrid war, Pakistan and no other country can be presumed to be spared from the potential danger that the evolution of threats has bought. India has long been trying to isolate Pakistan on the international front through the same. It has also blamed Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism and financing terrorists. Kulbhushan Jadhav case, India accusing Pakistan of Uri attack is one conventional element of hybrid warfare. Most recently, the Imran-led new government has taken a proactive step towards a peaceful settlement with India---a rival state since the birth of the two nations. But the Modi-led regime is unwilling to cooperate with Islamabad. Given the multitude and magnitude of such causes and the consequences of hybrid warfare, it is important that Pakistan upgrades its security strategies. The threats have evolved so should the ways to deal with them.
Wajahat Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2018.
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