You are nitpicking just because I wasn't clear about the point I made.
Shouldn't it be obvious, given the size and capability of India, we need to be talking about placing high-end MRBMs and IRBMs inside these submarines in order for Pakistan to match India's SSBN deployment?
This wouldn't be the first time Pak has hankered for Chinese N-subs. In the 1980s, they lobbied first the Americans and then China for SSN to counter India's acquisition of Chakra-1.
Back then, the Chinese N-sub prog was taking baby steps with the Xia class. Today, they might oblige the PN, with a lease deal for something like the Zhou class.
Infact, India too would have preferred to lease an American N boat if the US had agreed. They gave us the usual yarn about non-proliferation and soon after dropped all such pretenses with AUKUS.
