It is easy to winge. The real question is what options did you have. The Chinese Z10 was and still is not ready and has failed trials. The red bear was not providing you with used toilet paper till 2014. Even now progress on defence acquisition is very slow. EU would basically have fleeced you for everything you had but would have also sold you potentially sanctionable product at 1.5 times the price. So all in all no avenues open to you.
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Except China, Turkey is the only country wlling to offer/capable of offering a USD 1.5 bn loan to Pakistan. No wonder Pakistan is forced to negotiate a deal for the T-129s - with American engines at a price exceeding the top grade AH-1Z Viper.