LHC expresses resentment at EPD for failing to control pollution.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday took notice of the increasing environmental pollution in the city.

Justice Shahid Kareem heard an application filed by Haroon Farooq who has sought court's orders to control environmental pollution in the provincial capital.

Justice Shahid Kareem remarked that the environmental pollution in the city has reached alarming levels in the recent days.

'An international agency has declared Lahore as the most polluted city,' the court said in its interim written order.

The Director General of the Environment Protection Department (EPD) admitted that the measures adopted to control pollution have been insufficient.

It is the responsibility of the agriculture department to execute the judicial order to prevent burning of crops.

The EPD DG further informed the court that factories located in the city and in the surrounding areas and towns have...