As Pakistan chokes on smog, is the government doing enough?
12 hours ago · “The government’s smog mitigation plan, originally proposed in 2017, is essentially the same, with minor updates,” said Abid Omar, founder of Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI), a ...
Smog sickens nearly 70,000 people in Pakistan | AP News
1 day ago · MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities introduced mobile clinics and added more beds in hospitals to treat the nearly 70,000 patients received daily with respiratory-related diseases as hazardous smog continued to shroud the country’s east, officials said Wednesday. Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province with 127 million ...
Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated ...
1 day ago · A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents. Schools, offices and public spaces are closed.. That came after a senior ...
Toxic smog in Pakistan is so bad you can see it from space
3 days ago · CNN —. Record-breaking levels of thick, toxic smog that have shrouded eastern Pakistan and northern India since last month can be seen in striking satellite imagery. A huge cloud of gray smog ...
Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated ...
2 days ago · The minister, Marriyum Aurangzeb, is in charge of environmental protection and climate change in Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab. She said the lockdown was in response to "severe smog " — so bad that UNICEF's representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil, said the smog was visible from space. He estimated that more than 11 million ...
Pakistan’s Punjab Launches Plan to Curb World’s Worst Smog
1 day ago · 1:41. The government of Pakistan’s most polluted province has launched a new policy to address a protracted smog crisis, after the world’s worst air shuttered schools and saw 900 people seek ...
Pakistan: Satellite images show smog over Punjab visible ... - Sky News
2 days ago · The city in eastern Pakistan is often ranked as one of the worst places in the world for air pollution. Image: More than 40,000 people have been treated for respiratory ailments due to the smog ...
UN warns that toxic smog in Pakistan’s Punjab province is …
3 days ago · ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Monday warned that the health of 11 million children in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is in danger because of air pollution that experts say has become a fifth season in recent years. Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore and 17 other districts in Punjab since ...
Pakistan's Punjab sets up 'smog war room' to combat hazardous …
LAHORE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan's province of Punjab set up a "smog war room" to tackle severe pollution, officials said, as poor air quality turned its capital of Lahore into the world's...
Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city - BBC News
6 days ago · Satellite images from the US space agency Nasa shows both the thick layer of smog and the multiple concentrations of fire in the region between the Indian capital, Delhi, and Pakistan’s Lahore.