For PAF and their Armed Forces in general, User Specific customisations are now a luxury they don’t need nor can afford, as barring few things here and there,all their weapons are going to be Chinese anyway in coming decades. So integration will be seamless and no different than any other PLAAF unit. All they have to do it is translate the user manuals from Chinese to Urdu or English language or even adapting mandarin as an official military language (similar to how Urdu/Farsi language used to be).
For us it will be a big relief in peace time (as same resources will be sufficient to counter both front) and a bigger headache during war (rapid replenishment of war attrition owing to large industrial capacity of Chinese)
@randomradio
And tactically it’s in Pakees interest to load themselves/get hired by the more resourceful Chinese against a common enemy. Historically It’s how Punjabis and Pashtuns used to volunteer themselves to invade the richer Southern Indian subcontinent. All the invaders used to defeat local Punjabi and Pashtun Sardars and hire their military to invade further into South
It makes sense for PAF to become technologically subordinate to the PLAAF, no different from US allies with US forces.
Leasing is another way of saying the Chinese have paid for the jets. It's nothing surprising that the Chinese are now paying for the modernisation and operation of the Pak military.





