Another example of you not knowing Jack shit about the Jf-17 project. Inside of BS-ing your way through this thread , trying to learn a thing or two about the Jf-17 project. Pakistanis were heavily involved in the design of this bird. I don't have time to lecture your lazy *** .So go to through these threads
JF-17's various initial design phases
JF-17 Thunder - Information Pool
On the matter of Jf-17 thunder carrying out sorties. It was
Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood informed the media that JF-17 Thunder as already completed 10,000 sorties in Pakistani service. There are numerous more example to prove that it has been used in operations. Janes interview with the new ACM also confirms this.
But the problem is you dont wont to believe, you are blinded by your own ego. Instead of admitting that despite the industrial capacity of your country, decades and decades of production phases , your Tejas has spent most of its life in a Coma.
By the time Mark1A is raised , Pakistan would have raised multiple squadrons of BLk3s and upgrades old ones to blk3 standard.