A nigh midnight briefing by their information minister is very weird. Let's see what the donkey has to say.
You're right though. We could be getting fed misinfo although how that'd serve the Pakis well is beyond me...
F16s are, at night time, risky planes to fly. Pilots often say that the bubble canopy with no canopy bow leaves no reference of up and down at night and they sometimes end up inverted and flying towards the ground without ever realising they're going that way till they check instruments and see the blue at the bottom of the altimeter instead of the top.
Also, apparently, pilots hate flying with NVGs and rarely put them on.
All of this is just online anecdote but maybe worth noting.