Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) is both is both a scientific and a service department, and functions under the Cabinet Secretariat (Aviation Division). PMD is responsible for providing meteorological services throughout Pakistan to a wide variety of interests and for numerous public activities and projects which require climatic information.
Apart from Meteorology, the department is also extending services in the fields of Hydrology, Earthquake Seismology, and Geomagnetism. PMD operates under World Meteorological Organization (WMO) umbrella as 198 member states of the world and acts as the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Pakistan. WMO has divided the globe into 8 meteorological regions and Pakistan lies in Region #2 known as Regional Association II (RA-II) which includes Asia and the Pacific. The Director General of PMD is the vice president of RA-II and the Permanent Representative of Pakistan.
