{"id":39237,"date":"2021-11-25T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/pakistan-orders-monday-closure-of-schools-and-offices-in-lahore-to-cut-smog"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T05:00:01","slug":"pakistan-orders-monday-closure-of-schools-and-offices-in-lahore-to-cut-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39237","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan orders Monday closure of schools and offices in Lahore to cut smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials hope three-day weekend will help reduce toxic pollution levels in country\u2019s second largest city<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has ordered private offices and schools to remain closed on Mondays in Lahore in the hope that a three-day weekend will help reduce toxic levels of smog in the country\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n<p>The directive, issued by Punjab relief commissioner Babar Hayat Tarar, aimed to act \u201cas a preventive and speedy remedy\u201d during the winter smog season and will last until 15 January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/pakistan-orders-monday-closure-of-schools-and-offices-in-lahore-to-cut-smog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials hope three-day weekend will help reduce toxic pollution levels in country\u2019s second largest cityPakistan has ordered private offices and schools to remain closed on Mondays in Lahore in the hope that a three-day weekend will help reduce toxic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2331,65,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39237\/revisions\/39238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}