Its quite clear that US move is desperate arising from its current economic crisis. Yet I wished a strong and smart US administration should have created ways to sell peaceful technology at similar price tag..But what is lacks is business acumen...
Anyway ..I guess the easiest way out is for India to convince pakistan itself to stop from buying F16 by giving such business "opportunities". The advantage of india and pakistan doing business is the proximity..rather than doing business with US.Such measures would also give a moral boost to the peace process proganda....
while fundamentally all these policy are made to discorage business and cooperation between india and pakistan...and the root is "business"..pakistan must get convinced of it.