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There's an article from Janes which says they will receive it within a few months.
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Pakistan to start inducting FC-31 fighters
China is set to start supplying the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) with its Shenyang FC-31 ‘Gyrfalcon' multirole stealth fighter aircraft, a senior Pakistani government...www.janes.com
There are some details that don't make sense. The PL-17 is much bigger than the weapons bay of the J-35/FC-31 AFAIK so I don't think all the details there are 100% accurate. In any case, regardless of what members here think and public opinion shapes up and regardless of when the PAF inducts the J-35, DRDO, HAL, IAF and GoI need to take up AMCA's case with war footing. If they can replicate what they did with Zorawar's development, that would be the best. There is no room for procrastination there.

I'm not saying they won't get a 5th gen jet from China. They will get it for sure. But I heavily doubt these claims that they will get within next few months.
Agreed GoI & co need to fastrack AMCA on warfooting. As well as everything else like Astra Mk3,

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