That's well said. Even when you remove the chinese submarine deals (they could be financing the subs themselves or give loans which is most likely), Pakistan is still talking to Ukraine about multiple deals involving tanks, it is evaluating new wheeled SP Artillery, It is taking with the Czechs and Belgians about production of assault rifles, it is talking to Turkey about the frigates and FACs. There is clearly money available for 8 F-16s, but is it worth it for the the capability they add and the political risk they can represent.
On a side note that I think people may find interesting...and please forgive me because it took so long to get away from this heated topic previously, and I know when I post this it could start another flame war between some respected members, but for people who dont think we (the USA) have the ability to hack weapons we sell, just listen to this BBC piece regarding a confrontation between the Greek and Turkish navy. During the naval standoff in 1995, the US tried to broker peace, and two American ships who were acting as go-betweens for the Greeks and Turks, secretly, and successfully disabled the weapons systems of both navies (greek and turkish) as they were using American tech. Richard Holbrooke told the Greek FM (Theodoros Pangalos) that the US would not have allowed the two navies to fire on each other successfully and had disabled their weapons without them realizing it. All they would have done is kill a few fish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04km4gd Listen to the whole thing as the encounter is both interesting and ridiculous, but the part of interest is from 7:25 - 8:30
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Again, sorry for bringing it up again, but I thought of our discussion while listening to this on the radio yesterday and it is relevant to Pakistan and its F-16s. The possibility of remotely disabling the system is there, but as I have said before, it would likely only be used to prevent Pakistan from attacking NATO or US. Not likely to be used to prevent Pakistan from defending against Indian aggression, though with Trump coming into power, no-one can be sure of anything.