Majority of the world’s air combat missions almost 80% have always been A2G. Actual A2A BVR kills are the rare. Look at any serious war: Desert Storm, coalition AFs flew around 40,000 A2G sorties while real A2A engagements were a tiny fraction. That’s how real air forces operate. Once you have enough control of the sky, the primary mission is to smash the enemy’s bases, radars, command centres, hangars and infras from range.That is the primary mission.
IAF precision strikes systematically tore into PAF from Nur Khan in the north all the way down to Bholari, Jacobabad, Sargodha and the rest. Multiple independent analyses, including European ones concluded that by 10 May the IAF had the freedom to hit whatever it wanted while PAF had lost the ability to mount effective counter ops. That’s what winning the air war looks like in the real world.
Look at your own side. PAF was so severely lacking in proper A2G ground munitions that it had to resort to Fateh-I, Fateh-II and other ground launched rockets and missiles fired by the Pakistani Army. Thats an air force that couldn’t carry the A2G load from the air and had to outsource the job to artillery batteries. When your fighters can’t deliver sustained precision strikes and you start firing Fateh rockets instead, you are the ones who turned into a rocket force, not IAF.
IAF stayed in the actual business of modern air power putting weapons on the targets that matter and dismantling the other side’s ability to fight. PAF got exposed for its thin A2G cupboard and had to lean on ground systems.