LAHORE (Reuters) -Pakistan's Punjab province declared a health emergency due to toxic smog on Friday, banning construction, shutting schools for another week and moving universities online, while hundreds of thousands of Muslims prayed for rain and ...

Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Friday extended school closures in smog-hit major cities by a week, as the country battles record

With smog intensity escalating in Lahore at the end of October, affecting its 13 million residents, the Punjab government imposed a “green lockdown” and set up a “smog war room.”