Mainly hot and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country during the next twelve hours.

However, partly cloudy weather with rain-wind and thunderstorm is likely to hit isolated places in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan during evening/night.

Hot weather with dust raising and gusty winds is expected in Islamabad, Upper Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.

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The temperature of some major cities recorded this morning:

Islamabad sixteen degrees centigrade, Lahore twenty-two, Karachi twenty-six, Peshawar twenty, Quetta ten, Gilgit thirteen, Murree and Muzaffarabad fifteen degrees centigrade.

According to the Met office forecast for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dry and partly cloudy weather is expected in Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Pulwama, Anantnag, Shopian and Baramula.

The temperature recorded this morning: Srinagar nine degrees centigrade, Jammu twenty-one, Leh two, Pulwama and Shopian five, Anantnag and Baramulla six degrees centigrade.