Yes but is there much possibility of a 150+ KM BVR engagement taking place between India and Pakistan? It’s a very rare scenario already, one that no Air Force would attempt. In a PAF-IAF scenario the targets will always be much closer due the nature of the conflict and the locations of the bases. It’s better to invest in other technologies than trying to have the longest range missiles. At the end of the day none of these ranges are actually confirmed, who knows, maybe PL-15 does have a longer range than the meteor too? We can’t know. Just like we can’t hope to hit their jets at 150KM even with the best missile, they can’t hope the same either.
These very long range missiles were made to shoot down larger aircrafts like strategic bombers, tankers and AWACS, the last of which is still a valid use for them for both India and Pakistan, but those larger targets are obviously much easier to hit due to their massive RCS, and it’s not like Pakistan doesn’t have the missiles to match India. They had R77s? We had AIM120, they get meteor? We get PL15, even if their missiles are better on paper (and trust me, they’re not, india also massively hypes up the stuff it gets, as you’ve seen with the “Raptor of the East” and the “agar aaj Rafale hota” stories), PAF will maintain that edge due to all the other factors that go into these engagements.
Lastly, people often forget that the entirety of the PAF is meant to counter India, while the IAF is split between the PAF, PLAAF and even their eastern border to some extent. In an actual combat scenario, their “numerical superiority” will be much smaller than claimed, especially with how India-China relations have been recently. The PLAAF has a massive edge over them, part of which is unintentionally also carried over to the PAF.
Even now, they’re getting a few Rafales and PAF is already countering them with a new purchase. The conventional gap between Pakistani and Indian forces has been closing for a long while now…