tbh...I think the Turks' dheet stems from their Ottoman legacy. Though Turkiye was occupied, it was never colonized; the Turks of today are the same Turks who had established and spread a superstate. In contrast, the British colonized South Asia and replaced the original elite with their own loyalists. That said, a few remnant Mughal-era elites remained via the Princely States, but those were eventually removed too (most notably Osmanistan).
So, when the modern nation states emerged, the Republic of Turkiye was drawing on what was left by the Ottomans and, most importantly, the same stock of elites. Mustafa Kemal, for example, was an Ottoman officer before becoming a Republican officer. OTOH, Pakistan drew from what the British Empire of India left, and that stock were colonial administrators, not visionaries or nation-builders.
The Turks are not dealing with us for the sake of it, but because they have a vision or project they want to achieve. That's how visionary elites think.
There's no point blaming the British at this point. In fact, there is a runway to go from a colonial administrator-type state to a proper state -- see what the Americans did at the time of their revolution. Basically, our elites or 'establishment' need a transition point where they evolve or change into pioneers or nation-builders. The American Revolutionary vision formed as a project, and that project stayed alive just enough for when the American elites desired it.
Optimistically, I think the Pakistani project is emerging -- e.g., this forum and the growing number of podcasts focusing on our political development and society. For their part, the Turks might be trying to accelerate it by getting our elites to think as nation-builders, not administrators.
