LAHORE: (HRNW) The government on Saturday announced that it was not closing educational institutions in the country due to smog as students had already “missed a lot” during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are not going to close schools due to smog as the schools were already closed due to Covid for 1.5 years following which education in Pakistan has already suffered a lot,” Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood told the media outside the National College of Arts (NCA) as he inaugurated a digital lab, and laid the foundation stone of a new graduate block.
Smog has again blanketed many parts of Punjab, particularly Lahore, and citizens are becoming desperate. The megacity of nearly 11 million people near the border with India remains a cultural epicentre. But Lahore now regularly ranks among the worst cities in the world for air pollution — a mixture of low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal crop burn-off, and colder winter temperatures coalescing into stagnant clouds.
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