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Pakistan using hybrid warfare but India should respond maturely: Army chief

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat says India should be defensive, rather than offensive, in countering Pakistan's 'hybrid war' in Jammu & Kashmir.

General Bipin Rawat
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General Bipin Rawat

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On Wednesday, soon after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan messaged New Delhi that his army and people were “all on the same page in wanting to establish a civilised relationship with India,” Army Chief General Bipin Rawat stated in New Delhi that India should be defensive, rather than offensive, in countering Pakistan’s ‘hybrid war’ in Jammu & Kashmir.

Rawat was speaking in the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses to elaborate India’s strategy for hybrid war — the new-age conflict in which conventional military force is amplified with the use of propaganda and rumours on social media, separatism, terrorism, fifth columnists,