Lahore's air quality worsened to 97.4 micrograms of PM2.5 particles per cubic meter from 86.5 in 2021, making it the most polluted city globally.

Swiss group IQAir, which draws data from 14 regional monitoring stations, rated Lahore the world's most polluted city on Wednesday, with an air quality index (AQI) score of 1165, more than 120 ...

Lahore has become the latest megacity to shut down as pollution chokes swathes of South Asia, where nearly 50 million people have been breathing toxic air for nearly a week.

With an AQI reading of 345 early in the day, Lahore ranked second worst city in the world for air pollution on Tuesday, according to the Air Quality Index or AQI run by IQAir, a Swiss air purifier ...

Lahore was once known as the city of gardens, a jewel fought over by empires—the Mughals, but also the raiding Mongols, the Sikhs, and the viceroys of the British Raj.

A primary school in Lahore which has been closed due to smog, on November 5, 2024 [Khurram Amin/Anadolu via Getty Images] The children look for ways to express their frustration in their own way.

From January to June 2023, 24,445 serious crimes were reported in Lahore. However, in the same months of 2024, this number dropped significantly to 12,484 - cutting the crime rate nearly in half.

Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, tops the world's most polluted city list, along with India's New Delhi. Poor air quality has prompted the government to order a partial shutdown of schools.

Lahore today is the ultimate symbol of Pakistani nationalism – a Muslim majority city, the site of Lahore Resolution, where the Muslim League first demanded a separate homeland for Muslims, home ...

Lahore, a usually bustling sprawl known as the “city of living hearts,” was reduced to an eerie silence. Its routinely choked thoroughfares, often a cacophony of rickshaw engines and car horns ...

A woman reacts to the death of a family member who was killed in a bomb blast in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday, March 27. On Easter Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded park in Lahore.