The truth please!

Another more pertinent issue is unless we come clean on what sort of access we have been giving the US on the nuclear arsenal, rumours and half-truths will continue to find a ready audience, because our state has given exceptional access to the US across the country, post-9/11. To simply give meaningless denials with no real substance in them beyond the usual semantics does not convince anyone. After all, it is not just the foreign journalists who are referring to secret understandings between the US and Pakistan, beginning in the Musharraf era; US officials are also hinting at the same - in a guarded fashion. So what we need to know is how much access? It will be far better for the state to tell the nation the truth and then ensure that no further access is granted.
Finally, the military needs to distance itself from the US, even if the political leadership cannot do so for their own interests. Surely by now it should realise that the US seeks to weaken the institution of the Pakistan military so any form of cooperation will have a hefty price to pay. It is time to create a distance between the Pakistan and US militaries and see how the latter fares in Afghanistan. Unless this distancing is done, the American Establishment and its journalists will continue to play mind games with Pakistan over the nuclear issue. For the nation that is unacceptable.