He is a researcher in the fields of climate change, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, hydrology and seismology and has written over 50 articles in the fields of meteorology, atmospheric sciences, hydrology, seismology, plate tectonics and earthquakes.
He set up seismology and earthquake warning research centers in the Kashmir region and elsewhere.
His articles spanned meteorology, extreme weather, forecast, hydrological and high impact weather systems technology, agricultural meteorology, global warming, climatic changes and natural disasters.
He served as Permanent Representative of Pakistan with WMO and as Secretary of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclone for the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.
He is working as an International Climate Change Specialist with the Asian Development Bank and UNEP DTU (a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Technical University of Denmark), and Senior Policy Advisor to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.