International: Time off for medical staff is cancelled, all education institutions are shut until further notice, restaurants ...

Authorities in Pakistan’s Punjab have declared a health emergency in the country's east due to increasing smog as more than 2 ...

With smog intensity escalating in Lahore at the end of October, affecting its 13 million residents, the Punjab government ...

One doctor compared breathing in Pakistan's toxic air to smoking "dozens of cigarettes a day" as Lahore is the world's most ...

"The schools will remain closed for another week due to the hazardous air quality. Institutes including universities would switch to online classes to ensure the safety of students," Marriyum ...

Residents criticised Punjab’s chief minister, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, for travelling to London at a time people have complained ...

Pakistan's Punjab province declared a health emergency due to toxic smog on Friday, banning construction, shutting schools ...

Pakistan ’s smog situation has gone from bad to worse as air pollution rose to a record in Lahore. Sensors tracked by the ...

Pakistan introduced mobile clinics and added more beds in hospitals to treat the nearly 70,000 patients received daily with ...

Pakistan’s cities slip under toxic smog as live readings for Lahore show PM2.5 levels 100 times over what WHO prescribes ...

A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents.

The city is blanketed in cancer-causing acrid smog each year ... just above smoke-choked Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan, 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the northwest. The New Delhi government ...