The end of the Cold War, and the possibility of realignment of alliances in South Asia which was made possible by the end of the USSR, will hopefully bring this sad chapter to an end.
As we have seen more natural alliances taking place among democracies such as India-Israel-USA, the leadership in Pakistan will reap what it has sown, I hope: isolation as a failed state like Somalia and hopefully, Saudi Arabia.
We need to do a clean up, internally, on the proliferation problem before we let them ride off into the sunset.
I don't hold out a lot of hope for Pakistan, as even its intellectual elite have sold out to Islamicism.