LHC moved against smog

LAHORE

Walid Iqbal, grandson of great thinker and National Poet Allama Dr Muhammad Iqbal, filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court seeking directions for the Punjab government to take adequate measures to control smog and air pollution in the provincial capital.

Walid Iqbal filed the petition through his counsel Advocate Sheraz Zaka and submitted that many ill-planned development programmes were initiated in the city.

He said digging at several places in the city had caused a huge pollution. The petitioner said people had been getting ill due to smog which, he said, was mixture of dust and smoke in the air. Life had turned miserable due to this endemic air pollution. The government authorities, he said, did nothing to prevent the city from pollution which was increasing fast. He prayed to the court to direct the government for taking adequate measures to control smog and air pollution.