Pak F16s are to be sub-standard and threat to the national security of Pakistan

Its official – Pak F16s are to be sub-standard and threat to the national security of Pakistan ! Anybody who has read the going ons of the US Senate House International Relations Committee knows now that the F16s pakistan will be getting are sub-standard ( as I called them substandard junk etc etc before ). All the malarky about limitations on the design of the F16s sold to pakistan I already repeated before in my previous thread of “Sale of F16s hits snag in the congress” and was repeated in the proceedings of the committee. But that the newly acquired F16s would be a threat to pakistan’s national security came as a surprise even to me. The sale includes the following plans:

· site surveys and end-use monitoring, including annual inventories of all equipment related to the F-16s, by US officials;
· dedicated facilities for storage of spare parts and maintenance;
· strict limitations on access to the planes;
· complete segregation of the F-16s from third country-origin aircraft;
· express permission from the US government before Pakistan can fly the planes outside of its own airspace;
· full compliance with the security plan before the planes, weapons and equipment can be delivered.

I hope after reading the above redgriffin, AA sherrif etc would start to look for a suitable “chulo” to dive in together and not surface ( as in sharam se chulo bar pani mein dhoob maro ). Those of whose first langauge is not urdu I will translate ( not that it effect you in any way )- the pakistani saying I quoted in italics refers to drowning oneself out of shame. Redgriffen you were chiding me about not knowing jack (First of all to Anza, yes I can and do tolerate oppossing views. What I don’t tolerate is somebody shooting himself(and his community in general) in the foot by going on and on about something he does not know even jack about. )

I bet you never knew pakistan had to ask for america’s permission to use f16 outside of pakistan airspace – if the two brains cells in your head donot understand the significance of it –let me explain —Pakistan has to ask treacherous america’s permission in using f16 against india ( it would take them out of pakistan’s airspace).

Btw the first three conditions pose the greater threat to Pakistan’s national security since it would allow western agencies to spy on pakistan’s nukes i.e. designs, numbers etc. and more importantly their locations etc. ( site surveys and end user monitoring are words which would come to haunt pakistan).

Personally I cannot phanthom any sincere pakistani agreeing to this rubbish after all pakistan is paying for the planes and not leasing them, specially when the technology they are seeking to protect is out dated.

The old saying “Too good to be true” proves its wisdom on US offer of f16s to pakistan. US proves instead it is still the old-pre-911 treacherous, unreliable ally ( with allies like these who needs enemies ) of pakistan.