Lahore on Sunday again crossed the threshold of the worst hazardous air quality levels in different areas of the city.
According to air pollution data, the provincial capital recorded the hazardous particulate matter (PM) rating of 427 at Township and 418 at Allama Iqbal Town. While the average air quality of the city at the index was measured at 343.
AQI as high as 151-200 is considered unhealthy, while an AQI rating between 201 to 300 is more harmful and AQI over 300 is dubbed extremely hazardous.
According to experts, an increase witnessed in air pollution in winter, change in the wind speed, wind direction and sliding minimum temperature increases air pollution.
The air becomes heavier in the winter as compared to summer, causing poisonous particles in the atmosphere to move downwards and making the atmosphere polluted.
As a result, a layer of polluted particles, including large amounts of carbon and smoke, covers a city.
The smoke produced by burning crop remnants, factories and burning coal, garbage, oil or tyres enters the atmosphere and the effects of this appear at the onset of winter and remain till the season’s end, experts said.
Thus, air pollution reaches to extremely dangerous levels, severely compromising the air quality.
The AQI is calculated based on five categories of pollution: ground-level ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
Meanwhile, health experts have underscored that citizens should adopt precautions to minimise impact of smog.
On the other hand, flu, fever, cough and throat infection have become common, especially among the children.
The citizens have urged to the government to take head-on measures to tackle of the smog.
Meanwhile, unidentified accused opened fire on the stage dancer Sheeza Butt’s car in the Naseerabad area of Lahore.
According to the details, the stage dancer was on her way to her house in Naseerabad from Mall Road when the incident occurred.
Police said that the five bullets were fired at the vehicle and no casualties were reported from the firing.
Police have registered an FIR against Abdul Qadir and two unidentified accused on the complaint of actress Sheeza Butt’s brother, Rashid Ali.
On the other hand, Capital City Police Office (CCPO) Lahore Fayyaz Ahmed Dev has taken notice of the incident of firing on the car of actress Sheeza Butt and ordered the immediate arrest of the accused.
Meanwhile, a man was booked for allegedly harassing the female students and teachers of a government school in Kahna area of Lahore.
The police registered a case on the complaint of the government school’s headmistress. The affected teachers of the school said that a man named Irfan harassed them multiple times during the arrival and departure timings.
They complained that Irfan had not stopped harassing the students and teachers despite being warned by the local residents.
They added that he, sometimes, climbed the wall of the school to enter the building.
