Security Dynamics of Pakistan: A Reciprocal Analysis of Globalization and 5th Generations Warfare

Abstract

This study determines the threats of Fifth-generation warfare to Pakistan by using different tools such as social and electronic media. Poor governance and stumbling economy along with increased population growth and extremism make the Pakistan an unstable country of the region. Rising ethnic and sectarian strife has impaired the Pakistan stability. Intolerance, gender discrimination and gap between poor and rich are prevailing in every sector of Pakistan and no one can escape from this menace. On the behalf of ethnicities, number of associations is being launched while sectionalism is at its peak in Baluchistan. Rapid urbanization has changed the demography of major cities created many problems in the sense of pollution, poverty, depletion of resources and crime. Insurgencies in tribal areas and Baluchistan are great threats to Pakistan integrity. Internal violence coupled with demographic pressure due to low economic and high population growth is some key issues which Pakistan is facing now. Unemployment and inequal education and socio-economic system is provoking the extremism among Pakistan’s youth Currently, Pakistan is fighting with internal security issues arising from extremism and sectarian violence while the ailing economy coupled with unemployment and poverty are major trajectories in Pakistan which worsen more with spillover effects of hybrid warfare.