Not procuring on technical reasons is not a crime for e.g J-10 was declined by kaamra engineers team on the basis of Time between over haul was considered very low. Only 600 hrs of first overhaul, Mirages were also declined of soaring cost and maintenance setup flaws, only crime could be bribe for which they have to go outside of PAF to political circles specially Zardari Shb.
I remember it very clearly ACM of that time requested French to omit iff as they were charging it too high to cover the kick back amounts ofohterma.
Yes I agree with you on buying spree, but Israel could afford and had lots of love attached by Uncle Sam. French played dual game with us they knew the sanction r not gonna go early and currupt ion by politicians was involved. Pakistan could not go long with extremely expensive and bad contracts, it could affect the fleet to be grounded in few years.