Ok then simply make a commuter jet that can do those things i.e take off from short and unprepared strips and be a good commuter airliner as well.
I mean just look what humans have achieved so far. And we Pakistanis started JF17 when we had nothing and were under sanctions. Get international help like we did in JFT case, if it's really that difficult.
Mastaan Khan was a bitter grinch but he was right about PAF's afsar syndrome and how they sat on their a$$es until everything was too little, too late.