BY acknowledging that smog is a year-round problem, and not just a winter issue, the Punjab government has taken the first meaningful step towards tackling a public health catastrophe. However, while this ‘policy shift’ is indeed a positive development, will it also lead the provincial authorities to rethink their haphazard interventions to deal with the problem? No strategy will be successful unless they reorder their priorities and realign their infrastructure development agenda with the goal of reducing the........

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