Mostly due to politics within the institutions. Our research standard is pretty low as well. Anyone with genuine research gets thrashed and humiliated by the system and the glorified clerks like deans vc etc.
If universities can let go of their useless staffs, their financial situation will get...
You're more informed than us in these matters, but don't you think if PAF needed any twin engine flanker, it would have gone for j11b or j-16 ? Why would we want to invite crippling sanctions from US? Or is this is another try to leverage for viper upgrade?