With the advent of new technological advancements in the field of warfarethe forms and formats of the modern warfare have undergone drastic changes.

One of the salient features of this modernization in warfare is initiation of hybrid warfare and threats emanating from this form of warfare.

The contemporary academic and strategic communities are widely debating the facets of hybrid warfare and its likely future usages.

The term ‘hybrid threats’ or hybrid warfare is defined by scholars as; “A coordinated and synchronized use of military andnon-military instruments by state and non-state actors which deliberately harm or undermine the foundations of the targeted state (s)and its societies.

” The concept of harming the state may not be novel; nevertheless, strategies being used to implement the concept are modern, more destructive and detrimental for the targeted states and societies.

Whereas the theoretical concepts and emerging threats of the hybrid warfare are being studied by the militaries of various states, Pakistan is a classic example which has physically experienced the odd of hybrid warfare, launched by rival forces at regional and global level.

Apart from its past sufferance, Pakistani state and society are constantly suffering from this menace contemporarily.

There are five globally recognized trends/ strategies of hybrid warfare: a) exploitation of economic vulnerabilities, b) weaponization of widespread digitalization, c) distortion of reality, d) manipulation of societal polarization, e) diversification of........

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