The development is notable as India has maintained that all of PoK, including Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) in an integral & inseparable part of India.
New Delhi: Officials said, the IMD’s regional weather centre has started including areas in PoK in its weather forecasts, a departure from its earlier format.
Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the Regional Meteorological Department said The weather department has started including Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh’s Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) and Muzaffarabad, which are under Pakistan’s illegal occupation, under the Jammu and Kashmir meteorological sub-division since May 5.
Regional Meteorological Department gives the forecast for the northwest meteorological division of the IMD.
Indian Meteorological Department Director-General M Mohapatra said they have been mentioning areas under PoK under its daily weather bulletin ever since the bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir in the two union territories in August last year.
The officials, however, said it’s now being stated explicitly under the Jammu and Kashmir subdivision.
These areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir have now found a place in the overall forecast of India’s northwest division.
Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi-Chandigarh-Haryana, Punjab, east Uttar Pradesh, West Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan and west Rajasthan are the nine subdivisions in the northwest division.
The development is notable as India has maintained that all of PoK, including Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) in an integral & inseparable part of India.
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This comes amid news that Pakistan’s Supreme Court, which has no authority, is illegally allowing elections in Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) this week. India has strongly protested to the development.
Internally, it was pointed out that since these areas in PoK are being mentioned in daily national weather bulletin and also the local bulletins, they should also find a place in the forecasts of the regional weather centre, Sources added.
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