No not like Egypt, Egypt and we are two different stories..A major Non-nato ally as in most of the US's dirty work was done through Pakistan..All of NATO supply routes got through Pakistan..Mind you im not proud of all this, Id rather see pakistan military take no part in these matters since our primary concern is India thats all. But US's war on terror ended up spilling over and that was to be expected since, it was Pakistan that essentially fought in Afghanistan..To an extent you are right, Russia did self destruct they're economy couldnt hold out much longer, and waging war on Afghanistan was a big mistake.

But nevertheless PAF shot down a hefty number of soviet fighters during the few skirmishes that took place on our northern border..I think on one account it was Eight soviet Su-22s shot down without any loss from PAF, one of our F-16s went down but that was due to a mal-lock on from one of our sidewinders.

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