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?

@sTaLkEr

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.

It was Bhutoo who laid foundations of Afghan Jihad in 1974 and not Zia-ul-Haq. If Bhutto had stayed, he would have done the same what Zia did.

Example, looking at the strategic need for securing country’s eastern borders, Benazir Bhutto authorized and supervised support for Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.