F-16IN out of MMRCA?

HT to Shiv Aroor. India Today, a major India news magazine, reports that the Lockheed Martin F-16IN is effectively out of the MMRCA competition.

The magazine added that India is unwilling to buy the aircraft as the jet has been sold to Pakistan.

“The US keeps telling us in every meeting that we are a strategic partner and then they go ahead and transfer arms to Pakistan which are certain to be used against us” [sic]