Breathing in poison – Lahore’s growing air pollution problem

Toxic smog in Pakistan’s second largest city risks the health of its residents, but the government is failing to address the issueNadia Faisal, a cleaning woman in Lahore, remembers the sudden onset of toxic smog that hit Pakistan’s second-largest city last month. When she returned home, she found her children playing in a narrow alley, their eyes red and watering. “My kids were asking me ‘What’s happening?’.”The hazardous pollutants across Lahore’