You got it all wrong, many have very rudimentary knowledge about what Pakistan is good at, actually it is more about mixing theory with practical experiment, software and hardware kind of collaboration. Theoretical knowledge being turned into actual reality.
China has got a different league, BTW Pakistan ranks 7th in the world in number of scientists, engineers, researchers, technical people being produced in the world.
- More than 210 universities and many are into R&D work. 10 Pak universities into QS Asia top 300...read the Technology and Science section and Economic section related to the development here in PDF to get to know about the development here...
https://defence.pk/pdf/forums/technology-science.171/
https://defence.pk/pdf/forums/pakistan-economy.18/