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Renowned local property dealers... Can't even take control of real estate in other countries.

Or even get in on the flash-frozen produce market, be it domestic or overseas. Our producers can charge a relatively high margin for flash-frozen organic produce and, in turn, export it to health-conscious buyers in the West.

Also tell producers to invest in industrial grade refrigeration and freezing so that we stop losing billions worth of produce to waste each year.

Don't get me wrong though...I wish Pakistani R&D and STEM education did follow the same rigid process-driven approach of India. And the starting point of said process would be to put veteran R&D engineers and scientists in charge of projects, not parachuted generals or politicians. If paired...

Yep, I feel that the IAF (not sure about IA or IN) kept moving the goalposts for the Tejas. For example, if in 2012 some OEM starts marketing fighters with an AESA radar, the IAF tells HAL, "The Tejas must have an AESA radar to qualify." However, even the foreign OEMs themselves don't come up...

Just my observation, but I found Indians to be incredibly process-driven. They need to have (or develop) a process to get from A to Z, and that approach to things has helped them achieve many high-level technologies (e.g., composites, gas turbines, etc). However, the bureaucracy and executive...

tbh...I wouldn't be surprised if a Pakistani doesn't know all those details. For example, I'm sure there are secularists or even anti-Islam people among the regional nationalists, including Sindh (where some nationalists even commemorate Raja Dahir).

No, I think the biggest driver was/is how Muslims from India donated their gold to the Ottoman state in WW1 and, possibly, during the Turkish War of Independence against the Europeans. Plus the Khilafat Movement which, while ideologically different from where Mustafa Kemal was taking Turkiye...

Those are literally the same size of helicopter. You must be referring to T929.

IMO, the only 'missing' thing here would be a medium-weight (MTOW 21-24-ton) multirole fighter to complement the Kaan. I don't think the Turkish Air Force would need it provided it can upgrade its F-16s. However, it's definitely interesting that 2 of the TF-X concepts were single-engine designs...

tbh...I think the Turks' dheet stems from their Ottoman legacy. Though Turkiye was occupied, it was never colonized; the Turks of today are the same Turks who had established and spread a superstate. In contrast, the British colonized South Asia and replaced the original elite with their own...

If we had respected the electoral mandate in 1971, I think so... a united Pakistan had way, way more funding at its disposal. E.g., the PAF had ordered 2/3 of its original Mirage III/5 batch pre-1971 and no net-new fighter acquisition through the 1970s otherwise. Our racist and selfish...

Agreed. The goal shouldn't be to 'join' any program; rather, we should build our aerospace expertise across R&D, design, and manufacturing with the goal of selling services to whoever needs it, domestic or foreign. Unfortunately, we have a weak mindset where we need to show some type of project...

If you want to understand the mentality of the Turkish ruling elite versus the Pakistani ruling elite, carefully listen to Dr. Temel Kotil. He said, "you have a great asset here -- 200 million people, we only have 80 million people back in Turkiye." Point being, the man sees the population as...

Interestingly, this wasn't a new requirement, at least in terms of the intended role of this type of fighter. Since the 1970s, the PAF had always sought a new dedicated attack -- and later, strike -- asset, but it never panned out. It first aimed for (and almost got) 114 A-7s, but the US didn't...

Yep, this photo really puts the Kaan into perspective. From a size standpoint at least, it seems pretty close to the F-22 -- easily a 32-ton MTOW, probably more. It makes sense seeing how Turkiye wanted a platform capable of carrying the TuAF's future strike needs.

Pakistanis can vote for the absolute best politicians ever, but if the power structures are corrupt and out of their control, they won't have an impact. In fact, even the electoral choices Pakistanis get are filtered based on what the army, judiciary, and elites (landowners, corporations)...

That's for the individual, but for the government, their responsibility is to ensure societal wellbeing. For a third-world country like Pakistan, economic development is the primary goal for it ties deeply into poverty alleviation. So, investing in up-skilling the population so that they can...

Yep absolutely. Also, no investment in upskilling Pakistanis. Sure, at the start there may not be enough places within Pakistan to absorb the talent, but its continual availability will eventually bear fruits. So, if I had an able labor force, a Pakistani investor could at least use it to...

Egypt isn't doing well economically bro, its fundamentals are as borked as Pakistan, but they have stronger ties with neighbors to help drive trade and investment to keep them chugging. I wouldn't credit Musharraf or even Zia ul Haq for any real economic improvement either. What they did was...