The best thing that could have been done for Pakistan was for the Russians and Americans to stay out of that region. If they had, then the Mujahedeen, the forerunners of the Taliban, would never have been dredged up out of the Islamic fundamentalist abyss by the CIA, funded by the USA to kill Russians...Afghanistan would never have been invaded by either Russia or America...neither the Taliban nor Al Queda would ever have gotten a base there...and Pakistan would not have been destabilized as it has been in the past 25 years by a massive influx of Aghan refugees and guerrilla fighters.

It is the Russians and the Americans, by their imperial actions, who gave birth to the Taliban and Al Queda.

Pakistan has suffered the fallout from that.

The Pakistani military warned the USA back when it was funding and gathering Islamic fundametalists to kill Russians that those actions were giving birth to a "Frankenstein monster" which would come back to haunt both Pakistan and the USA.

The USA paid no attention to those warnings. They were intent on damaging the Russians and that was all they thought about.