Why create a LIFT for a market of 30 jets max? Especially when the world market too is saturated with it.PAC has been making these aircraft for decades now, if we need new aircraft for training, why cant we try to design our very own design? Starting from basic PROP trainer and then moving on to LIFT? With the experience of Mushak, Super Mushak, K8 and now JF-17, isn't there enough technical knowledge in-house to at least try that?
Please, this is a characteristic of stupid nations to do stuff just for the heck of it and not only when they need to.