In the Punjab region of Pakistan, record-high air pollution levels triggered hundreds of hospitalizations, school closures ...

Record-high air pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province prompted authorities to keep government employees at home and close ...

The authorities in Lahore, home to 13 million people and the country’s second-biggest city, have told half the work force to stay home.

The response came days after the Pakistani environmental minister said it would write to the Foreign Off­ice on Monday to approach Indian autho­rities for talks on joint efforts to curb smog.

More than 900 people have been admitted to hospital in a single day in the Pakistani megacity of Lahore due to air pollution, the local government said.

It has also set up a “smog war room” to monitor the situation and oversee action to combat the pollution. Pakistan’s Punjab ...

A three-year-old girl has filed a petition against the local government in Pakistan's Punjab as the province ... filing a ...

LAHORE: Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday (Nov 6) ordered schools closed in smog-hit main cities, ...

Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab, of which Lahore is the capital, registers hazardous air pollution during the winter season, when slower wind currents are compounded by smoke from field ...

Lahore, the provincial capital of 14 million people and Pakistan's cultural hub, remained the world's most polluted city on Wednesday with Air Quality Index readings of over 1,100. Anything over 300 ...

The Pakistani province of Punjab is asking people to stay home as much as possible, halting in-person schooling and setting ...