Oh, and one more important point. And this is not keeping Rafale in mind but whole IAF.
We should just start with our own low cost low and medium range Air Defence systems, saturate our lands Very heavily with these systems, layer by layer that it would be almost impossible for any Indian CMs or Jets to achieve their goals inside Pakistan.
If i were a dictator, this is what i would have done to shield my cities from nukes. Cluster of Low Range Air defence systems spread throughout Sindh and Punjab as well as Northern areas, Medium AD systems spread along the coast and the IB and LOC while Long range systems to intercept incoming BMs and CMs in distances. Costly but highly effective solution. All of this should cost around $28-32Bn in the long term but this investment would be something that you won’t regret ever.
As well as this post also, and don’t further quote me otherwise the cycle goes on infinity