Tag: Met

New spell of rains start in parts of country: MET office

ISLAMABAD - The Met Office has forecasted on Saturday that a fresh spell of rains will start in several parts of the country during the next 24 hours.
According to a private news channel, a thunder storm was followed by rains in Peshawar on Saturday early morning.
The Meteorological Department has predicted of rain in the next 24 hours in Islamabad and Rawalpindi along with several other parts of the country.
"Strong winds and thunder storms followed by rain is expected

Devolution deadline unlikely to be met

ISLAMABAD - Due to a lack of interest of several members of the implementation commission on the 18th Amendment and uncooperative behaviour of the provinces, the commission is set to miss the deadline for the completion of the process of devolution of ministries to the provinces.
The lack of interest by the members of the commission could only be gauged by the fact that only three of the nine members attended Tuesday's meeting. "Only Raza Rabbani, Rehmatullah Kakar and Naveed

CBS comedy ‘How I Met Your Mother’ renewed

NEW YORK - CBS has renewed the comedy 'How I Met Your Mother' for two more years, bringing a degree of certainty to at least one show in its Monday-night lineup.
The deal announced Monday between CBS and producer Twentieth Century Fox Television keeps the show on through the 2012-2013 season. The five central actors - Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders - are each signed for two more years.
If the current troubles between CBS and

‘MQM not to join govt until demands are met’

LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will not join the federal cabinet until its demands are met, MQM Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Haider Abbas Rizvi said on Friday.
He was talking to journalists after visiting the residence of US national Raymond Davis' victim. Rizvi said that the MQM's stance was based on principals and the party would stand by its philosophy.

Met officials deny floods could have been averted by using ECMWF

LAHORE - Meteorological Department officials on Thursday denied that floods could have been averted by using the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) eight to ten days before prediction of the disaster.
According to Met officials, only huge water reservoirs could have minimised the damage caused by floods. Few days ago, Georgia Institute of Technology Earth and Atmospheric Science Professor Peter Webster claimed, "This disaster and flooding could have been

Met office predicts light rain, dense fog

Lahore - Met Office predicted rain of light to moderate intensity at scattered places of upper parts of the county on Thursday/Friday, resulting some relief in the prevailing cold / foggy weather conditions. Minimum temperature in Lahore dropped to 1 Celsius, whereas maximum temperature remained at 19 Celsius in the Provincial metropolis.
Met Office informed that a westerly wave is likely to grip upper parts of the country on Thursday and likely to last for two days over there.

Taseer met his fate: Munawar

LAHORE - Salman Taseer was responsible for what happened to him because he tried to obstruct the functioning of the blasphemy law, Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Syed Munawar Hasan said on Wednesday.
Taseer occupied a high government and yet he violated the blasphemy law by extending support to a woman convicted of blasphemy, he said, adding that he was going to seek the president's clemency for her while the decision was still pending with the courts.
Taseer had ignored the

Foggy, dry weather will continue: Met Office

LAHORE: Foggy conditions are likely to grip most parts of the Punjab with no rain and cold and dry weather is likely to continue in the coming days plus a fresh cold wave is likely to affect upper parts of the country, reports the Met Office.
Fog will continue to persist in Lahore, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Sukkar and Peshawar divisions, eastern and central Punjab and central Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, whereas hilly areas are also likely to remain under the grip of severe cold