In an interview to the correspondent of an English newspaper of Pakistan during his recent visit, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the US was supporting some common enemies of Pakistan and Turkey, and the time has come to unmask them and act together.
Surely, the Turkish PM knew what he was talking about. The amazing part, however, is that even after his disclosure, none in our government, including our politically charged President, the ever-guessing PM, or the over-eloquent but-nothing-else Foreign Minister neither accepted nor denied the Turkish PM's views.
For reasons best known to the Pakistani regime, we never point out this reality to our 'ally' - the US - although even in the American press now there are references to it and the fact that the US effort aims at eventually convincing the world that Pakistan is too unstable to hold a nuclear arsenal.
The idea is to promote terrorism in Pakistan to a point where this claim becomes undeniably credible. While the Turkish PM also hinted at the role of some NGOs in promoting terrorism, a clear sign of the US role therein are now the almost daily drone attacks, 90 percent of whose victims are the innocent.
The fact that these attacks go on unabated conveys the impression that they have the blessings of the Pakistani government. This 'tactical' dumbness of the government is the sure way of pitting the people against itself to the point of a civil war - a scenario that will justify US take-over of Pakistan's nukes.
During a TV talk show last week, the chief reporter of a state-owned news agency disagreed with me vehemently when I said that, while Taliban provided the cover, several foreign agencies were involved in terrorism in Pakistan, a view that several Baloch and Pashtun politicians have expressed very often.
The worrying aspect of the Turkish PM's interview is that Pakistan's PM was present during it, but said nothing on the subject. If Pakistan disagrees with the views of the Turkish PM, Pakistan's PM or its (otherwise very vocal) Foreign Minister must come up with a rebuttal or accept what the Turkish PM said.