Brother we can see the picture in that way as well however, the strategic gain we achieved by supporting taliban are far lesser than overall destruction of our society, culture and security in the form of kalashanov culture, terrorism, bomb blast, drugs, smuggling and proxy wars.
We need to understand that back at the time of cold days we could have elect semi-neutral by keeping enough relationship with Russia that not to motivate them to attack here while keeping enough incentives for west to keep investing our economy while being a mixed economy ...
We should learn now from China that best way to proper and develop yourself is not preemptive strike but to manage confilcts diploatically and have deterrents like nuclear weapons, stong border control and internal security ...
With nuclear weapons in our hand risk of external attack is minimum unless we are very weak from inside through terrorist and proxies ... India wants us to engage with Afghanistan and thats why they keep on putting bones in front of its dog ashraf ghanin to bark at us but we should act smartly to not to act but at the same time keep enough pressure both at India and Afghanistan to not to humiliate us publically which they are doing openly ...
On the topic of bombers,, first requirement is to establish a strong force of attack aircraft both for land and sea and then to invest on naval assets to safe coastal region as well as sea line of communication then we can go for offensive platform like bombers ... even in distant future I dont see happening that ...