A harmful exhaust cloud in eastern Pakistan has made a huge number of individuals out, driving specialists to close a few urban communities until the end of the week.
Brown haze in the nation's second-biggest city Lahore has ascended to hazardous levels.
The Punjab common government has requested that schools, workplaces, shopping centers and stops in three urban areas, including Lahore, be shut until Sunday.
Pakistan's Punjab region borders the Indian condition of a similar name.
Throughout the course of recent days, Lahore's Air Quality Record - which estimates the degree of fine particulate matter in the air - have drifted around the 400 imprint. AQI levels at or under 100 are for the most part considered agreeable. Lahore borders the Indian city of Amritsar.
North India is likewise experiencing the effect of harmful brown haze.
Air contamination in the Indian capital Delhi has ascended to disturbing levels. On Tuesday, the air quality file for the Indian capital hit 300 on 7 November, almost arriving at the unsafe degrees of 301-500.
Some Lahore inhabitants let BBC Urdu know that the poisonous climate is a successive undertaking that has seriously impacted their wellbeing and other everyday exercises.
"It seems like this noxious climate has turned into a piece of our lives," said sales rep Ameer Hamza, whose work expects him to be making the rounds on a cruiser for a large part of the day.
"I go to different focuses to showcase items and when I return home in the wake of a difficult day, my eyes are red and bothered because of air contamination. And afterward my work is impacted because of me being debilitated all the time. The present moment, I'm nursing a cool, sore throat, and hack," he said.
Sarah Zeeshan said her one-and-half-year-old little girl has found it challenging to eat and drink as the brown haze has prompted rankles framing overall around her mouth.
Tenacious openness to exhaust cloud can prompt longer-term wellbeing harm, including causing cellular breakdown in the lungs.
A specialists trust the consuming of harvest buildup to get ready for the colder time of year establishing season is a vital reason for the air contamination.
Pakistan said last week that it will raise the issue with Indian specialists at a discretionary level, nearby media revealed, without giving further subtleties.
In any case, specialists have noticed that similarly as in India, ranchers in Pakistan likewise resort to stubble consuming to get ready for another establishing season.
Clinical offices, supermarkets and corner stores stay open in Punjab. Specialists have encouraged inhabitants to wear veils assuming that they should head outside.
Hippie Rafi Alam said the public authority approaches pointed toward battling exhaust cloud are "made exclusively carelessly, which are of no utilization".
"Until you perceive an issue as an issue, how might you fix it? Will sprinkling water or shutting schools three days seven days tackle the exhaust cloud issue?" he said.
As per the Air Quality Life Record created by the College of Chicago, air contamination abbreviates individuals' lives by just about seven years in Pakistan's most dirtied locales, including Lahore.