Falcon26
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Very well said. Our woes will end the day we start electing competent leadership.
On topic: Only reasons I can think of for Mirage-2000 are
A. PAF is looking to gradually close her relations with US. Recent fiery speeches may have caused this effect.
B. They are paving the way for further acquisitions e.g. Rafale. India may have been lured away by Boeing and LM. Who knows?!
C. Somebody is pocketing big money here (don't ask!).
Just because something is available is not a good enough reason to get them. In the 1980s and 1990s, the PAF was very interested in the mirage-2000s but corruption scandals killed any hope. Ultimately Pakistan had to stick with the Agosta-90B submarines, which themselves were very involved in huge kickbacks. In fact, the current campaign manager of Donald Trump was involved in the kickbacks and pocketed a lot of money as did other Pakistani politicians and generals. So acquisition of the mirages would have made sense then. Not today.