Pakistan Taken Right Direction in Strengthening its Defence and Acquired Nuclear Prowess

"Understanding planned compulsion in the monarchy of Hybrid Gray Conflict: Implications for Pakistan", Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat said
Pakistan Taken Right Direction in Strengthening its Defence and Acquired Nuclear Prowess

Pakistan has taken the right course in intensification its defense and acquired nuclear prowess to keep away from being coerced, a top Pakistan Army official said on Monday.

Addressing a seminar, "Understanding Strategic compulsion in the Realm of Hybrid Gray Conflict: Implications for Pakistan", Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat said, "Beginning as early as the partition, coercive statecraft and antagonism from our neighbor is not new." 

"However, with the attainment of hyper-Pakistan had taken the right direction and strengthen its defense. We carry on building our Minimum Credible Deterrence. Nuclear power of 2020 million cannot be coerced," he said.

He said with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the developing dynamics of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Pakistan was set to play an important role. "We succeed in the past, we'll succeed in the future," he added.

In the current international environment, the subject of the seminar, organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, was of great significance and interests to Pakistan because "it was durable a subtle and, at times, not so subtle strategic coercion," he said.

"In fact, it was not just Pakistan but the whole district was subjected to the planned coercion and even the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) had become a hostage to this phenomenon," said Gen Hayat.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baloch separatist and the arrest of Indian national Kalbhushan Yadav are all expression of this developing challenge," he said.

The General said that the strategic compulsion was discouragement the regional planned calculus and unconstructively moving the internal politics as well, and to ward off the specter of planned compulsion in the realm of hybrid warfare, new methods and modalities were required.

"We have taken the direction and come a long way in establish and escalation our defense. We fought off the bane of terrorism, not only physically, but expressively and psychologically as well," he said.

Apart from Gen Hayat, Leonid Savin from geopolitical analyst, Russia; Ikram Sehgal, resistance and safety analyst; and Lt. Gen. (Retd) Naeem Khalid Lodhi, former defense secretary.



Savin said that the notion of gray hybrid conflict was a western build and the rest of the world should come up with its own narrative.

"Before 2014, hybrid warfare was discussed mostly in military affairs but, after the Ukraine crisis, it has prolonged to the political domain as well," he said.

Sehgal describes hybrid warfare as a mix of all the linear and non-linear, kinetic and non-kinetic warfare whose all mechanism was consistent, applied concurrently and adopted likewise in time and space.

"Propaganda, social implosion, and cyber warfare are some of its expressions," he said.

Lt. Gen. Lodhi said that hybrid fighting was an acme of approach to win a battle without fighting. He said that it was unleashed to impact worldviews, politics, culture, social bonds, and economy.

Related Stories

No stories found.
logo
Since independence
www.sinceindependence.com