A boy silhouetted against smog while playing cricket in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2011. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

In China and Pakistan’s Coal Romance, Where’s the Love for the Climate?

If you were travelling via motorway from Islamabad to Lahore during November or December 2016, you might have felt like your head was in the clouds. That’s thanks to the smog that engulfed large parts of Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces in that period. This was clearly “not a natural phenomenon”, as the Pakistani newspaper…