Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world—it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate—but that doesn’t mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.
All schools in Lahore will be closed tomorrow (Friday) because of "dense smog".
This includes both private and public schools. Schools in Gujranwala and Faisalabad will also remain shut.
The Punjab School Education Department has issued the notification for the closure and blamed it on the smog.
Air quality levels across the city are rising every day.
People are filing petitions in the Lahore High Court and organising protests but the government says everything is fine. Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world — it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate — but that doesn't mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.
AirVisual.com and aqicn.org, two websites that measure air quality, have both declared that the air in Lahore is very unhealthy.
According to Pakistan's revised air quality standards, an index of 200-300 is 'moderately polluted', while the rest of the world considers this 'very unhealthy'.
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