The mindset at the time, was the urgency for Pakistan to have its own fighter jet which is impervious to Western Sanctions, is what Pakistan Air Force benefitted from. so far PAF have added 100+ JFT locally produced with local maintenance and upgrade.
Today, things are different, due to the decisions made back then. If anyone looks at the PakistanAir Force, they are on course (112 already built) to fielding 200 JFT. To top that, the Pakistan is now working on full MRO set up for the JFT. They have also managed to integrate a very lethal weapon on the JFT, which is the CM400AKG and RaaD II. missile system. At present, I do not believe Indian Air Force has anything remotely resembling that capability, nor the means to defend against it. CM400 AKG goes at Mach-5, RAAD 2 a subsonic but lethal missile, and to make matters worse, this missile has the ability to evade air defense radars by flying around them and/or dodge incoming air defense missiles. It doesn't end there either, at present the Babur missile is not only fielded by the Pakistan Army but by Navy also in terms of Harba. But the worst of all news is yet to come, they are now working with the Chinese to develop CM302++ which will be a "Hypersonic Missile" capable of dodging incoming SAMs.
The time has come for Indian Military (all services) to up their game. Not just in terms of countering the enemy's capabilities, but also to surpass them. Indian Air Force , the Navy, Army and Bharathi Strategic division need to get their acts together and work on Hypersonic capability, FAST!!!!