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PAC should be in charge of the projecNothing is impossible.
Pakistan has brilliant scientists and engineers who are affordable and produce the results. As long PA controls and manages the project we will have it out in 10 years.
They were sent to do their PhDs in the UK. It was more of an assignment for a qualification and had little to do with education. Even the last test pilot candidates that went to the UK for the test pilot course, one of them got suspended in flying, and the rest struggled heavily due to their lack of engineering backgrounds.For all her issues, I remember Reham Khan actually saying (a few years back when she was married to IK), "what's the point of spending on education when there are no jobs?" It's the same issue everywhere you go, e.g. in Canada many in the STEM field have to head to the US (or China!) for work.
The two lead PAF engineers responsible for repairing the damaged Saab 2000s did their PhDs in the UK. I suspect there are now quite a few of these guys in the PAF now who (having gained some insight into the time organic R&D takes in the West and subject matter expertise) now believe there's enough to start Project Azm.
In the engineering wing there are a lot who are very qualified academically. Applying it has become a sort of competition for assignments rather than teamwork for an ultimate goal.
The new team that has come into PAC have taken a few hits on the international stage (Paris and Dubai air show briefings) that they are over 30 years behind and are now under pressure from the new ACM to work on their stuff. And thankfully they are picking it up bit-by-bit, if not going in the reverse direction.