Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has made one of the starkest admissions of Islamabad’s past alignment with the United States, accusing Washington of “exploiting” the Southeast Asian nation for its strategic interests and then discarding it “like a piece of toilet paper” after its objectives were met. Speaking in Pakistan’s National Assembly, Asif admitted that Pakistan often denies its terror history, calling it a “mistake committed by dictators in the past.”
The Pakistani minister also termed Islamabad’s involvement in two Afghan wars ‘a mistake,’ saying that the terrorism in Pakistan today was the blowback of past mistakes.
