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Yes, he could have. The reason for declaring is to save time. You don't want to use up too much of the time you have over the five days, because if there is no result, it goes as a draw. Weather was a factor, just as it was in New Zealand (more time was lost to rain in that Test), so Captain Paine did not want to hurt the team's chances for a win in a chase for individual accomplishments.
But to think that Warner would get another 65 runs in just 5-6 overs is ridiculous. He got his 335 in 418 balls. At that rate, he would face another 84 balls to get to 400. That's 14 overs if his partner faced not a single ball in those 14, an impossibility. More like 25 overs, and if Australia had done that, and the weather had been just a little bit worse than it turned out, that could have given Pakistan a little extra life in their follow-on, stay alive long enough to force a no-result on the fifth day. Captain Paine took everything into consideration and made the smart decision to declare when he did.