I wasn't talking about the Peace Gate-I/II F-16s.
I was talking about the PAF's F-16 plans after Peace Gate IV.
The US started marketing the F-16C/D Block-30/32 to countries (including Pakistan) in the mid-1980s. The PAF started looking at it in 1987-1988.
Though it ultimately ordered the F-16A/B Block-15OCU under Peace Gate III/IV, AHQ did actually chalk up plans to acquire an F-16C/D variant through the 1990s. In fact, there's an old Flight International article on this forum somewhere with ACM Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi who said that the F-16 plan was for 110 F-16A/Bs plus an option for 50 more. The "50 more" were actually supposed to be C/Ds as that was the only variant in production in the 1990s.
Remember, the PAF canned the Sabre II in the late 1980s. It did so because, like so many other air forces in the world, going all-in on just the F-16s was the most optimal and cost-effective move. If not for Pressler, the PAF would've probably had one of the world's largest F-16 fleets like Egypt, Turkey, and South Korea.
It's worth noting that the PAF even went as far as footing the bill for original integration projects -- like ATLIS-II -- because it basically expected to fly mostly F-16s. It even tried to pick up the Penguin AShM, but for some reason, the project fell through at the time.
BTW this is the article I'm referring to:
With the embargoed fighters now destined for New Zealand, the Pakistan air force must soldier on with the 32 Block 15 F-16A/Bs surviving from an 1983 order. This is a far cry from the force of 110 F-16s it had planned to field by the turn of the century, with an option to acquire another 50.