Originally Posted by
crusader377
I think people need to take the AK for what it is, it was a rifle that was designed to used by poorly trained conscripts. They are very reliable especially when poorly taken care of and require little maintenance but other than that, the M16/M4 platform are far better rifles. We can observe proof of this worldwide. Obviously excluding the U.S., but the M4 is the weapon of choice of professional end users world wide. Whether it is the British SAS, Australian's/New Zealand, a host of European countries, etc.. the bulk of high quality Special Forces type units worldwide use M4s.
Another example is the Israelis. The Israelis built perhaps the best AK variant of them all, the Galil but once they received M16s in the 1970s (M16, M16A1, and Colt 653s), the Galil got relegated to reserve type units or more rear echelon units. That is not a ringing endorsement of the AK platform vs the AR platform.
Even with the OPs original post about Pakistan, Can we guess what Pakistani elite forces use? The M4. Which also seems to indicate that the M4 is the better of the two rifles because if it wasn't, Why would their best troops be armed with it?