However, the US has at least thrown $6 billion of its taxpayers money at Pakistan since 2001 to fix this issue, though without admitting its own responsibility in causing it to begin with.
The US has admitted it under the Obama administration through Secretary of State Clinton. Does that make a difference, though? Pakistanis focus on the US role yet ignore the far more important Saudi role. Why? The Saudis gave as much if not more money to the Afghans fighting the USSR and more importantly was the leading figure in providing the theological framework for them. No one there was fighting a "jihad" on behalf of Christian conservative Ronald Reagan. The US gave Stinger missiles; Saudi Arabia created a network of schools that mass produced jihadists through its textbooks and its ideology (and Saudi Arabia began exporting Wahabbism globally in the mid-70's, before the Soviet invasion).
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The fact is that Taliban/Alqaeda etc are same guys who were brought to Afghanistan from around the world, funded and trained by US/West/Pak only difference is that US/west DUMPED these guys with tonz of money and arms and no common enemy to fight with unlike other example you gave.
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Who dumped who? The Soviets left in 1989; less than two years later Bin Laden began railing against the United States. The same people who praised "godly America" (as opposed to the "godless Soviets") were chanting "death to America" just a few years later! The jihadis turned against America, not the other way around. The US left altogether and did not interfere with them until they turned on and then attacked America. I love how Pakistanis love to point out the US-jihadist alliance in Afghanistan and then act as if it was the US who betrayed the jihadists. It was the other way around. Why are Pakistanis loath to acknowledge that? If you are going to get indignant over the demise of that 80's alliance place your anger on the party which broke it... (the same people also turned against their other ally: Saudi Arabia) Pakistanis should understand this--you were their longest, closest supporters (the US left in 1989 and the Saudi role was limited in the 90's) and they also turned on you!
Is Afghanistan the only time foreign powers financed a party in a war? No. What is unusual in this case is how quickly one side turned on the other.
No common enemy to fight? Wait a minute. We are told today that if only the jihadists are given victory in their given sphere of conflict (and there are a dozen+ of them...) they will go home and become spiritual yogis. They "won" in Afghanistan. Why didn't they go home and live normal lives?
Speaking of 1989 and 1991, Pakistanis tend to look at the world as if it is comprised of just the Islamic world, the US, India, Israel, and China. Take a global view. 1989. 1991. Did anything significant happen in the world in those years (and the Gulf War was a historic blip. What was the real story of 1991?)? Did that have an influence on jihadism's decision to go global? After Afghanistan where were the first places jihadists went? Bosnia and Chechnya. What were they provinces of?
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Pakistan is hosting millions of Afghans who brought in the heroine and gun culture to Pakistan.
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Zia banning alcohol had nothing to do with the dramatic rise in heroin use???