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First of all no western country will sell us awacs or a2a, a2g weapons, nor we have that kind of money or the willingness to buy them.
Yes, they can be modified to fire Matra magic missiles .
Also BAF's own technicians are capable of carry out various kind of modifications themselves. For Example BAF used American helmets on F-7, BAF technicians carried out modifications to enable the aircraft to support those helmets.
Another example is BAF's older Mil Mi 17 helicopters were retrofitted with French communication systems from Fuga majister trainers. Once a com onboard a mi 17 broke down. Due to spare shortage, techies completely replaced with a com system from an old fuga majister. They realised it work better than the original, so they replaced all of the com system of all mi 17 with the Fuga majister's com system.
There is comprehensive solutions available. For instance recently inducted Type 56 corvettes were integrated into BN's Combat Management & integrated network which is a Thales designed system. Type 56B carries an datalink equivalent to western Link 16.
There is no comprehensive solution for dual type data link for fighter jets which can communicate with western link-16 & Russian or Chinese data link, that is why Pakistan developed its own solution for this problem.