LAHORE: At his house on busy Mall Road in Lahore, environmental lawyer Rafay Alam runs three air purifiers around the clock, keeps his windows shut and stuffs towels into the gaps under his doors. Some winter days, when the city’s smog is particularly bad, “I don’t send my daughter to school,” he admits. The prime minister, who grew up in Lahore, said he sees tackling the city’s smog problem as a priority. Those included curbing emissions from factories, closing brick kilns that fail to use fuel-efficient technology, and fining polluting vehicles and farmers burning rice stubble in the winter. The Environmental Protection Department said the level of smog pollution was lower this year than last in Lahore because of anti-smog measures already underway.

Source: Pakistan Today January 07, 2019 17:03 UTC