PAF should grow a heart. There isn't anything lacking in its inventory after the Block 52s join and the J-10s join in a couple of years.
The planes don't come cheap. They cost more than buying bananas from the local market. We aren't a rich country, and we suffered the wrath of the global economic recession besides our economic woes thanks to the multitude of terrorist and political problems.
Had I been sitting in the executive and they had come up with this recommendation to me, I would have asked them to pay a visit to a slum before thinking again especially since they've been accommodated admirably already. Yes, I realize, there are larger considerations here but it isn't as if the PAF's modernization has been shunned altogether. It has received extensive financial support for its plans already. Block 52s, JF-17s and in a number of years J-10s as well. That means a fairly modern flying fleet.