This is the key quote:
"The foreign minister, while referring to the remarks made a day earlier by
Senator Farhatullah Babar who criticised him for advising the Americans to have an Afghan policy free from the influence of generals and asked him to apply the same in Pakistan, said: “I agree that it should be so.”
He made it clear that he had not “unwittingly” criticised American generals for their failure in Afghanistan, saying
the new US policy was ineffective because it was influenced by the generals who suffered defeat in Afghanistan.
“The Americans have devised a framework for their policy for South Asia, which is in fact focused on Afghanistan. It was devised by generals who have struggled in Afghanistan for the last 15 years.
I do not think any policy can be made by people with that baggage and mindset,” he remarked."
https://www.dawn.com/news/1367853/khawaja-asif-says-his-ministry-not-in-control-of-foreign-policy
Of course, the irony is clear, given the assumption that
only US Generals could have created and followed failed policies.