Minister reviews anti-smog measures.

LAHORE -- Provincial Minister Environment Protection Department (EPD) Muhammad Rizwan on Thursday chaired a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on smog to review implementations on anti-smog measures.

Secretary EPD Saima Saeed briefed the meeting about follow up of actions taken on the decisions of first meeting.

On a report about stone crushers, she said major clusters of stone crushers existed in Sargodha, Rawalpindi, DG Khan and Mianwali while action had been taken against the crusher of Sargodha on violations while water sprinkle system was installed at crushers in Mianwali. Representative of the EPA told the meeting that for conversion of old technology brick kilns to zig zag, a summary has been prepared for approval from December 31. So far 516 kilns have been converted to zig zag while action against 2,394 kilns was taken. Kilns in Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan...