Hope you were around in the 70s and 80s to make the above observation.
Pakistan had no option but to intervene in support of the so called "Afghan mountain people".
Perhaps you don't realize the challenges mounting for Pakistan then for you to suggest that Pakistan should have just closed its eyes and minded its own business. Our business was OUR security on our north western borders. Soviets did not take over Afghanistan just because they felt like invading a neighboring country. They had a plan to get close to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea.
Pakistan did let "Afghan mountain people" do their thing only to see them murdered, destroyed throughout 1978/79.
So just because you have suddenly found a "woke" sense to beat up the establishment/army because of the ongoing political mess for all things past and present, at least don't try to re-write the history as if Soviets were sending gifts to Pakistan and Afghanistan and we turned them down and took up "punga" with them for no reason. Just like in the American GWOT in Afghanistan, we did not have the option to ignore the occupation of Afghanistan and its millions upon millions of Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns.
Lastly, hindsight in always perfect. Non-intervention would have been worse for Pakistan.
I always agree on this it’s in my post, yes I was around during Russian invasion ofAfghanistan. the Russia was a much much worse threat to Pakistan. Getting rid of the soviets had to be the priority. It’s clear some of you missed the point I was making of the afghan war. Law of unintended consequences. We armed the mujahideen against the soviets , mujahideen won. US left. They splintered and went nuts. Preventable, but as usual , we fUcked up the end game. Us told us and them once they got rid of the soviets. They would help them agree into peace. But once it was over the US just left them just like that…Pakistan pick up the broken pieces. Woke hahahaha…Woke is made up nonsense by the right wing press to get their readers all angry about something that isn't real.