NPR -A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents. Schools, offices and public spaces are closed. That came after a senior provincial minister called for a "green lockdown." The minister, Marriyum Aurangzeb, is in charge of environmental protection and climate change in Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab. She said the lockdown was in response to "severe smog" — so bad that UNICEF's representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil, said the smog was visible from space. He estimated that more than 11 million children under 5 years old were in the worst impacted areas and said that the air pollution would "have devastating effects."
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