A good step for pakistan would be to pass off and sponsor alot of its research work to academic institutions and universities. This is effectively more productive, cheaper and breeds a whole new generation of scientists and engineers in the country. lts a way of tapping into the larger brain of pakistan as a whole.
This is commonly done here in the uk, with companies such as BAe systems and Rolls Royce sponsoring unversity students to conduct research, which is then compiled and given to the host company.
l myself am an example of this.
As pakistan lags behind (as well as india) most western nations, the issue of technology transfer should be sought with defence purchases. ie:- we will purchase off you if we are shown how to manufacture and develop ourselves. Sure the UK or france isn,t going to show us how to manufacture Rafale and EF2000 fighters, but can work with us on how to indigenously develop starting from minor things such as airframes, radios, receivers, overhauling facilities, which will eventually lead to more and more indiginisation.
To those who mimic and pass off sarcastic comments about pakistan. Well then you should remember that on the formation of pakistan we didn,t even make our own bullets. BUT today pakistan now exports over $150million worth of just light arms, which is likely to double by 2006.
Pakistan has secured sales of its trainer planes to a number of nations, most recently to south africa. Manpads are also produced and being further developed, aircraft weaponry, tanks, APC, rockets and many other types of equipment.
Sure we are behind other nations, But we are moving forward and the progress is getting faster. lndia only has the lead as pakistan sufferd numerous one sided embargoes while india did not.
The lead: well we,ll notice that in 10 years.
Pakistan now has the freedom to deal with nations such as the Ukraine, France, Sweden, China and no more do we need to rely on just the US and other select countries.
Paksitan has many gifted people, but it all depends on how the goverment decides to utilise them.
India specializes in cost effective space solutions dude! :smokingc: