ISLAMABAD: Air quality in Lahore improved on Wednesday morning as wind speeds helped disperse pollutants that had shrouded Pakistan’s second-largest city in thick smog for days, the Punjab government said. The Swiss-based air monitoring agency IQAir recorded Lahore’s Air Quality Index (AQI) at 158 at 10:53 a.m. local time, placing it sixth on the list of the world’s most polluted major cities, behind Kolkata and Delhi in India, Beijing, Dubai and Cairo.

Lahore was ranked the world’s most polluted city on Sunday, according to Swiss monitoring group IQAir, as thick smog engulfed Pakistan’s second largest city. IQAir’s reading for…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Lahore once again topped global pollution charts on Monday, with toxic smog in the eastern Punjab province showing no signs of letting up. Lahore and other…

ISLAMABAD: Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was ranked as the most polluted city in the world again on Tuesday as authorities grapple with toxic smog. Dense,…

ISLAMABAD: Air quality in Lahore improved on Wednesday morning as wind speeds helped disperse pollutants that had shrouded Pakistan’s second-largest city in thick smog for days,…