In the city of Lahore, workers have been told to stay home as air pollution levels rose far beyond what is considered safe.

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 ...

Pakistan's province of Punjab set up a "smog war room" to tackle severe pollution, officials said, as poor air quality turned ...

The impact of air pollution on the people and the economies of both countries is shocking. Fair Finance Pakistan, an ...

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.

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.

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.

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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 ...

For the past two weeks, dense smog has been hanging over Lahore, the capital of the province in eastern Pakistan. Record ...