Lahore: Public Health Emergency declared due to smog

[RescueRanger]

Owing to the rising poor air quality and smog, the provincial government has declared a public health emergency, S.144 will be enabled, 10th November will be public holiday. S.144 will be applied and public holiday will be applicable to:

• Lahore Division
• Gujranwala
• Wazirabad
• Kasur
• Narowal
• Sheikhupura.

https://x.com/TalonNewsHD/status/1721853692914405398?s=20

Government has stated:

• People are requested to stay at HOME and refrain from using motorcars
• Public transport will remain open
• Takeaway restaurants will remain open, dine in will be closed
• Pharmacies and Bakeries will remain open
• Parks will be closed

 

[One_Nation]

Overpopulation, dirty air, dirty food, dirty cities, misery due to diseases. What is the point of this progress? It is better to start living like people did 200 years ago.

 

[Enigma SIG]

Enact an even - odd numberplate day for vehicles on the road
Rollout a tax credit incentive policy that gets people to carpool.
Remove cars older than 20 years from the road.

Sorry what was I thinking this is Pakistan lol, carry on.

 

[RescueRanger]

Enact an even - odd numberplate day for vehicles on the road
Rollout a tax credit incentive policy that gets people to carpool.
Remove cars older than 20 years from the road.

Sorry what was I thinking this is Pakistan lol, carry on.

Lahore has always struggled with smog. This case is made worse due to Stubble burning in India:

Pakistan says it will take up burning of crops' residues with India at diplomatic level

Pakistan plans to address the issue of "stubble burning in Indian Punjab" impacting air quality in Lahore with India at the diplomatic level. Lahore, one of the world's most polluted cities, suffers from smog due to the burning of crop residues in Indian Punjab, just 20 km from the border. Both...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Enigma SIG]

Lahore has always struggled with smog. This case is made worse due to Stubble burning in India:

Pakistan says it will take up burning of crops' residues with India at diplomatic level

Pakistan plans to address the issue of "stubble burning in Indian Punjab" impacting air quality in Lahore with India at the diplomatic level. Lahore, one of the world's most polluted cities, suffers from smog due to the burning of crop residues in Indian Punjab, just 20 km from the border. Both...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

I remember nothing of this sort in 2011-2017 (my first years in Pakistan). It suddenly became a thing right before Coronavirus as I remember buying N95s for the first time before the pandemic hit.

 

[RescueRanger]

I remember nothing of this sort in 2011-2017 (my first years in Pakistan).

Yup, this is really bad. Somg has never been this bad in Lahore.

 

[ziaulislam]

Yup, this is really bad. Somg has never been this bad in Lahore.

Cars and it's gonna get worse

Rather then going full electric in cities and switching rail to electric
We are completely unaware of the problem

 

[PDF]

Bahawalpur and Multan Sutele hain? Lahore is the darling huh? no public holiday there? The air pollution here rn is extreme.

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Owing to the rising poor air quality and smog, the provincial government has declared a public health emergency, S.144 will be enabled, 10th November will be public holiday. S.144 will be applied and public holiday will be applicable to:

• Lahore Division
• Gujranwala
• Wazirabad
• Kasur
• Narowal
• Sheikhupura.

https://x.com/TalonNewsHD/status/1721853692914405398?s=20

Government has stated:

• People are requested to stay at HOME and refrain from using motorcars
• Public transport will remain open
• Takeaway restaurants will remain open, dine in will be closed
• Pharmacies and Bakeries will remain open
• Parks will be closed

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[RescueRanger]

Bahawalpur and Multan Sutele hain? Lahore is the darling huh? no public holiday there? The air pollution here rn is extreme.

These people have no clue what they are doing.

Rather then going full electric in cities

We don't have the infrastructure or a reliable grid for this.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Without Trees
Without Vegetation

The air quality will go down

Without Water recycling , with out conserving water the water streams will become polluted

Billion Tree Tsunami is only solution as introduced by Honorable Imran Khan