Carl,

Thanks for this, citing the BBC:
...local residents stating Pakistan Army soldiers asked them to turn out their lights an hour before the strike.
For a host of reasons I am unconvinced, in part reflecting my experience with British-Pakistanis. Soldiers asking people at night to turn their lights off? Given the local character this is one place where I'd expect local residents to be paying for their electricity (unlike many cities) and a local sub-station could easily have been remotely turned off.

Did the local tweeter mention this request? IIRC he did not.