ISLAMABAD : VP of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Sherry Rehman yesterday featured the disturbing discoveries of the World Air Quality Report 2023, revealing insight into Pakistan’s troubling situation as the second most contaminated country universally.
As per the International organization (IQ) Air’s yearly report, Pakistan positioned second in the rundown of the most polluted urban areas on the planet in 2023, just behind Bangladesh. While underlining the weightiness of the circumstance, Sherry Rehman called attention to that there exists no sub-stantial dissimilarity between the air pollution paces of Pakistan and Bangladesh. She focused on that the normal amount of contamination in the air ought to preferably be around 2.5 micrograms per cubic meter (PM2.5), according to worldwide principles. However, raising worries, Sherry Rehman uncovered that in 2023, Pakistan recorded a perilously high normal air contamination level of 73.7 PM2.5, a figure fundamentally surpassing the satisfactory norm. This raised degree of contamination presents serious dangers to general wellbeing, she cautioned.
