‘Used us like toilet paper’: Pakistan minister’s rant exposes state-sponsored terror policy

A blunt rant by Pakistan’s defence minister exposes how jihad, extremism, and terrorism were deliberately cultivated for geopolitical gain

PGurus Newsdesk

February 11, 2026

From jihad to junked ally: Pakistan minister reveals the truth behind terror politics

Pakistan has finally said the quiet part out loud—and it came not from an Indian critic or a Western intelligence report, but from Pakistan’s own Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif.

Standing inside Parliament, Asif delivered what may be the most damning self-indictment in Pakistan’s history: a confession that the country willingly served as a mercenary state, rented out to the United States for geopolitical wars, and then discarded “worse than toilet paper.”

For decades, Pakistan projected itself as a victim of circumstance. On Wednesday, it tore off that mask.

A terror factory crying foul

Asif admitted that Pakistan’s decision to align with the United States after 1999—particularly in Afghanistan—was a catastrophic blunder. But what he conveniently avoided saying is that Pakistan didn’t just participate in these wars. It profited from them, institutionalised them, and exported their by-products across South Asia.

Terrorism wasn’t collateral damage. It was state policy.

From training jihadists in the 1980s to sheltering Taliban leaders after 9/11, Pakistan played both arsonist and fireman, demanding dollars from Washington while fueling the very extremism it pretended to fight.

Now that the bill has come due, Islamabad wants sympathy.

Blaming generals—without naming the system

Asif blamed military rulers Zia-ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf, accusing them of dragging Pakistan into foreign wars for short-term gains. That part is true—but also laughably incomplete.

Those generals didn’t hijack Pakistan. They were Pakistan.

The army wasn’t misled into jihad—it built jihad, injected it into textbooks, glorified it through mosques, and weaponised it against neighbours. Terror outfits weren’t accidents of history; they were strategic assets, cultivated carefully by Rawalpindi.

And when those assets turned inward—as all monsters do—Pakistan discovered that playing with fire burns.

Khwaja Asif admits in Parliament that Pakistan rented itself out to the U.S. for war and was later discarded “like toilet paper”. Afghanistan was destroyed by policies now openly acknowledged in parliament. Millions suffered. Generations were lost. The world cannot look away now… pic.twitter.com/aEQjrm16ME
— Mariam Solaimankhil (@Mariamistan) February 10, 2026

Afghanistan: the lie finally collapses

Asif also demolished another long-standing Pakistani myth: that its involvement in Afghanistan was driven by religious duty.

He admitted that “jihad” was a marketing slogan, not a moral cause. The wars were never about Islam—they were about American geopolitical objectives, with Pakistan acting as the hired muscle.

Even Pakistan’s education system, he revealed, was reshaped to justify these wars. An entire generation was radicalised not for faith, but for foreign money and military leverage.

This wasn’t miscalculation. It was ideological engineering.

From frontline ally to global embarrassment

After 9/11, Pakistan theatrically turned against the Taliban—while quietly ensuring their leadership survived. When the US finally exited Afghanistan, Islamabad was left holding the debris: blowback terrorism, economic collapse, and international isolation.

Asif called the damage “irreversible.” For once, he’s right.

But Pakistan wasn’t “used.” It volunteered.

It cashed the cheques.
It ran the camps.
It trained the killers.
And now, stripped of relevance, it’s crying betrayal.

The real revelation

The real takeaway from Asif’s rant isn’t that America exploited Pakistan. It’s that Pakistan’s leaders finally admit what the world has known for decades:

Terrorism was not imposed on Pakistan
Radicalisation was not accidental
Jihad was not religious
It was policy.

Pakistan didn’t become a victim of terrorism. It became a terror state that lost control of its own creation.

And when the defence minister himself says the country was “used like toilet paper,” perhaps the world should stop pretending Pakistan deserves the benefit of doubt—and start holding it accountable for the mess it proudly helped create.

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