Nice try, I clearly said "nuclear weapons" -- NOT the civilian energy program. The scientific base for nuclear obviously predated the military program. Indeed, that's when the scientists who led the civilian program urged the then Pakistani government (around the late 1950s and early 1960s) to build the nuclear fuel-cycle at home to acclerate our nuclear weapons program. But the babus at the time, like you, said, "Why? If we need it, China will sell us."
With that "wise" decision, babus like you had Pakistan sit on its hands while the Indians did exactly what our scientists advised (i.e., use the open commercial environment to create the entire nuclear fuel-cycle). The Indians then carried out their cold tests, and from there, the US came hard on Pakistan to prevent us from securing our nuclear weapons. Now, thanks to babus like you, we had to start from 10 years behind where we originally were, and against the US-led sanctions regime.
But, alhamdulillah, by the Grace of Allah (SWT), babus like you couldn't get in the way (though your lot tried) and we were able to build the entire fuel cycle indigenously.
Do you know we developed this entire fuel cycle? Well, here's a hint: CHINA HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH IT.
It was because we had scientists, diplomats, bureaucrats, etc, all forging ties with middle-powers across the world to rapidly learn what they had and to reverse-engineer or develop from scratch in Pakistan. Yes, China was among the many, many who were able to get some technology from, but it was WE who put it all together and indigenously create our own original fuel cycle.
Today, we now have the capacity to design and build our own SMRs; basically revolutionize electricity delivery across every rural area in Pakistan and exponentially accelerate our nuclear warhead production if we should choose. Do you know who stops us from this by denying us access to enough uranium? The US and, surprise-surprise, China.
Instead, our entire current uranium supply channel is dictated upon us by the Chinese, which comes with the condition to buy their reactor technology (which is fine, to be fair, but doesn't quite line up with the optimal direction that works best for Pakistan, while also putting an artificial limiter on our warhead production).
BTW, do ask your benefactors about that time China squashed a bilateral Pakistan-Kazakhstan deal by pressuring them to lay off "their" market. Or about that time China did the same thing with a potential Pakistan-Russia deal.
Spoken like a true babu who hates the potential of his own country; I'm 100% sure you're only there loot and plunder with your benefactors.
We indigenously developed the entire God-damn nuclear fuel-cycle, we can do anything provided we impose discipline on how we manage resources, build a genuine environment for private sector growth in manufacturing, dedicate funding for organic R&D and building our scientific community. Can't exactly do that effectively if we're ignoring partnership opportunities with willing middle powers and shuttling our precious ForEx to fund Chinese imports.
1. GIDS is a marketing front of NESCOM. It lacks the ability to scale up production to the necessary levels because of babus like you helming the decision-making cadres.
2. KSEW can only construct from imported KoMs. It will only go indigenous once the private industry is able to source key inputs like steel, etc indigenously. It's a real shame we couldn't do it yet, had it not been for babus like you nationalizing our industry.
3. PAC? Babus like you ruined it from the potential it had (once being a French licensed Mirage rebuild and ATAR MRO site with people who could garner respect from Denel, TAI, etc) to the PowerPoint factory it is today.
Yes, and Turkiye has greater industrial grasp of its F-16s than we do our JF-17s. If the US and China cut Turkey and Pakistan off tomorrow, respectively, I am 100% sure that the Turks will have an easier time keeping their F-16s airworthy -- if not outright reverse engineer it -- than Pakistan will with JF-17.
And re: S-400... It's old talk now as the Turks move onto SIPER and Steel Dome. Of course, I'm sure you don't care, you're probably in the babu party lining up their Swiss accounts for Cheeni Dome.
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