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IMD’s Regional Meteorological Center has begun including cities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in its forecasts, a departure from its previous format, officials said Thursday.
The IMD has started to include Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad, which are parts of PoK, under the meteorological subdivision of Jammu and Kashmir since May 5, said Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the Regional Meteorological Department who gives forecasts for the northwest meteorological division. of the IMD.
IMD CEO M. Mohapatra said they have been mentioning areas under PoK in their daily weather bulletin since the Jammu and Kashmir fork in the two union territories in August last year.
However, officials said it is now explicitly mentioned in the Jammu and Kashmir subdivision.
These PoK cities have now found a place in the overall forecast for the Northwest Division.
The northwest division consists of nine subdivisions: Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi-Chandigarh-Haryana, Punjab, eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Uttar Pradesh, eastern Rajasthan, and western Rajasthan.
Development gains importance as New Delhi has been in a position that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir belongs to India.
Muzaffarabad and Gilgit-Baltistan’s inclusion in the forecast comes amid the Pakistan Supreme Court allowing elections in Gilgit-Baltistan this week. India had reacted strongly to development.
Sources added that internally, it was noted that since IMD has mentioned these cities under the PoK in its daily national weather bulletin and also in local bulletins, they should also find a place in RMC forecasts.
Mohapatra said that IMD, being the Regional Meteorological Center nominated by the World Meteorological Department, provides severe weather warnings to Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan, detailing forecasts for the next five days.
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