{"id":67614,"date":"2024-11-01T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/01\/lahore-delhi-choked-smog-pollution-season-india-pakistan"},"modified":"2024-11-01T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:45:48","slug":"more-toxic-than-ever-lahore-and-delhi-choked-by-smog-as-pollution-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67614","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More toxic than ever\u2019: Lahore and Delhi choked by smog as \u2018pollution season\u2019 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As air pollution hits toxic levels, one proposal is to introduce a \u2018smog diplomacy\u2019 initiative between Pakistan and India<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/29\/air-pollution-campaign-lahore-dryden-goodwin-breathe\">smog<\/a> descended over Lahore, people began to feel the familiar symptoms. First came the scratchy throat and burning eyes, then the dizziness, tightness in the chest and the dry racking cough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become a physical ordeal just to go outdoors,\u201d said Jawaria, 28, a master\u2019s student living in the Pakistani city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/01\/lahore-delhi-choked-smog-pollution-season-india-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As air pollution hits toxic levels, one proposal is to introduce a \u2018smog diplomacy\u2019 initiative between Pakistan and IndiaAs the smog descended over Lahore, people began to feel the familiar symptoms. First came the scratchy throat and burning eyes, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"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":[722,353,65,653,346,62,60,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-delhi","category-environment","category-farming","category-health","category-india","category-pakistan","category-society","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\/67614","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\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions\/67615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}