As the air carrying pollutants from India swept over several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Punjab, where Lahore continues to top the world pollution records, Pakistan’s continuing smog crisis has gotten worse.
Around 10 a.m., the province capital’s air quality index (AQI) was 613 on the Swiss company IQ Air’s real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual air quality guideline value is 76.4 times lower than the measured value of 382.2 for PM2.5 pollutants, the small particulate matter in the air that causes the greatest harm to health.
After hitting several Punjabi cities, the haze moved across the province and covered certain KP regions.
