Would a responsible civilian leadership have allowed our proxy war against USSR?

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Re: Would a responsible civilian leadership have allowed our proxy war against USSR?

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95% of our problems today are traced to the Zia era when we jumped on to a war that resulted in militants arriving and thriving on our soil. I’m just curious if the scenario would have been different were there a civilian leadership helming the affairs? If so, then we better do the good deed today and start with absolute civilian control of all our assets, defence included.

A soviet controlled afghanistan and india on another side would have been a strategic nightmare. Think of it as this way: Pakistan has made numerous blunders in kashmir so does that mean kashmir was a stupid cause?