Overview
- EPA officers with police must staff intercity bus terminals, motorway toll plazas, and the GT Road corridor to stop polluting vehicles from entering Lahore.
- Authorities were told to run an intensive two- to three-week operation across Punjab, submit duty rosters to the court, and ensure no smoke-emitting vehicle appears on Lahore roads for the next two weeks.
- The court directed the EPA to place warning banners across the city stating that vehicles emitting smoke will be impounded.
- An EPA representative told the court that roughly 60 tons of old tyres were seized from industrial plants during the ongoing anti-pollution drive.
- Justice Shahid Karim identified long-haul traffic to and from Karachi and interior Sindh as a major pollution source, and the case was adjourned to Monday with Lahore’s AQI reported in the unhealthy range.