Benazir was right. Zia got armtwisted into radicalizing half of Pakistan into becoming a proxy for the west against the Soviets.
He should have asked for jets and missiles instead of assisting in giving birth to the taliban.
However he had bought time so that Pakistan could complete its nuclear program because declining the west would have meant further scrutiny and it would have ended with air strikes like what happened with Iraq.
The training to Afghan Mujahideen like Hikmatyar, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Burhanuddin Rabbani started during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's time around 1973-4. Taliban were created by Naseerullah Babar who was in PPP under Benazir's government. Bilawal is a rubber stamp who will do anything he is told by the establishment.

