Multan’s AQI has crossed 2,000; a jailed Imran Khan has made a “final call” to rally protestors against the government; a ...

Punjab government declares smog a health crisis, uses artificial rain to combat hazardous levels in several cities.

Some of Pakistan's biggest cities are in the grip of a wave of severe air pollution and toxic haze. Going back several years, the issue that erupts every winter takes on health dimensions with a spurt ...

Pakistan’s most populated province of Punjab declared a health emergency on Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in ...

Analysis of images from South Korea’s geostationary satellite GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, which takes pictures every 5 minutes, shows ...

The AQI was highest on Friday from noon to 8pm, reaching an average of 227 micrograms per cubic metre (ug/m3).

The Punjab government successfully tested a local technology for artificial rain on Friday, aiming to combat smog across the ...

With air quality hitting “hazardous” highs, Lahore is forced into survival mode — schools shut, hospitals overflow, and ...

In Pakistan, the Punjab information minister says that while 70pc of Lahore’s smog is generated locally, around 30pc wafts in from India. This makes bilateral cooperation essential. In addition, the ...

LAHORE: Country’s most populated province of Punjab on Friday extended school closures in smog-hit major cities ...

You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati Image/AP. In response to severe air pollution in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, authorities have declared a health emergency in the cities of ...

Authorities have declared a health emergency in eastern Pakistan due to record levels of air pollution. Nearly 70,000 ...