High levels of dust pollution in Karachi causing asthma, allergies
(WorldNews Pakistan)

High levels of dust in the city generated by construction projects and bad roads has created health hazards, as seen in the SITE area and (right) North Nazimabad. -Fahim Siddiqi/White Star KARACHI: Health experts have raised alarm over the unusually high number of patients they are examining these days with upper and lower respiratory tract infections and allergies and believe that the major contributing factors to these ailments were high levels of dust pollution in the city and changing weather conditions. They said patients with chronic asthma or those vulnerable to asthma, apart from the elderly and children, were the worst sufferers as these environmental conditions were aggravating...