For all those who are whining, ' why you picked the losing side', it's simple, because it was never your choice to make to begin with
In a fight between 2 superpowers what you wish is as irrelevant as that of a dust
Cry all you want but Pakistan was objectively more useful for

the West in the fight against Communism and Soviet Union
1) Pakistan shared a direct border with the USSR
2) Pakistan was instrumental for Anglosphere to help cut Russians from accessing the Indo Pacific belt as well as the silk road
3) It can continuously pump radicalised