Thu, 2023-11-16 11:56
ISLAMABAD: The eastern Pakistani city of Lahore was ranked the second most polluted city in the world on Thursday morning, according to an IQAir listing, which showed it had an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 470, which is considered ‘hazardous.’
An annual global survey by the Swiss maker of air purifiers had put Lahore as the city with the worst air in the world in 2022.
Last week heavy pollution-fueled smog forced authorities to close schools and markets in Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab, of which Lahore is the capital.
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