1900… You might think this is an emergency helpline number, but it is actually the air quality index for the city of Lahore in Pakistan, which has created a new world record for pollution. Currently, 14 million people in Lahore breathe this poisonous air, which is equivalent to smoking 83 cigarettes a day. This toxic pollution of Lahore has left far behind the pollution of the capital of India, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
While the AQI of Delhi is 222, the AQI of Haryana 207 and the AQI of Punjab 194, the AQI of Lahore, Pakistan, remains between 1000 and 1900. Due to this dangerous pollution, a new ‘lockdown’ has been implemented in Lahore, which the government has called Green Lockdown. Under this, 50% of employees in all offices in Lahore will have to work from home, primary schools will remain closed for a week, there will be a complete ban on autorickshaws running on petrol and diesel, all related activities will be banned. access to construction sites and the use of masks will be mandatory.
Apart from Lahore, the air in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Multan is also poisonous at this time. Instead of blaming their government for this pollution, the people of Pakistan are expressing their anger against India and this is happening because the government of Pakistan has said that India is responsible for the increase in pollution in their country and through the winds, India is the AQI of Lahore. It has reached 1900 due to pollution reaching Pakistan.
Now the big question is whether Indian air can really pollute Pakistani air.
Pakistan says that the Indian state of Punjab is only 24 kilometers from Lahore and that is why when farmers burn stubble in India, due to the direction of the wind, the smoke from the stubble reaches Lahore and other cities of Punjab and in this moment The same is happening and farmers in India and Punjab are responsible for the increasing pollution in Lahore. It is true that the direction of the wind keeps changing and the wind blowing from Pakistan in the west and coming towards India in the east, sometimes the same wind also blows from India towards Pakistan.
But right now, when Lahore’s pollution is most dangerous, the wind is “northwest”, which means the wind is coming from Pakistan towards India, not from India towards Pakistan. And just to avoid its responsibility, Pakistan is blaming India for this pollution by lying to the people.
Here, the people of Pakistan should also think: how can the air of Punjab, whose AQI is 194, reach the AQI of Lahore, Pakistan, 1900? The truth is that just as the governments of India blame each other for pollution to avoid their responsibility, in the same way the government of Pakistan also blames India for this pollution to avoid its responsibility.
While, according to a research paper from Pakistan, 83 percent of pollution in Lahore and other cities is due to smoke coming from vehicles. 9% of pollution is caused by smoke coming from factories. 4% of the pollution is caused by stubble smoke and 3.5% by garbage smoke.
NASA satellite images have also shown that there is currently more stubble burning in cities and towns around Lahore than in Punjab, India, so people in Pakistan are suffocating due to pollution, but the Pakistani government It is also inciting its People are against India by doing politics and people there hold India responsible for this pollution.
