Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) is both a scientific and a service department, and functional under the Ministry of Aviation. PMD is responsible for providing meteorological services throughout Pakistan to wide variety of interest and for numerous public activities and project which require climatic information.

Apart from Meteorology, the department is also extending services in the fields of Hydrology, Seismology and Geomagnetism. PMD operates under World Meteorological Organization (WMO) umbrella as 198 member states of the world and act as National Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Pakistan. WMO has divided the globe in to 8 meteorological regions and Pakistan lies in Region #2 known as Regional Association II (RA-II) which includes Asia and Pacific. Director General of PMD is vice president of RA-II and permanent Representative of Pakistan.