: How Karachi’s public transport system stifles the growth of its women #IndiaNEWS Aiming to be a professional footballer, Samia Gul, 12, kicked, dribbled and manoeuvred the football like an ace player
How Karachi’s public transport system stifles the growth of its women #IndiaNEWS
Aiming to be a professional footballer, Samia Gul, 12, kicked, dribbled and manoeuvred the football like an ace player until a few months ago. Hailing from Pakistan’s “football district� Lyari, in the southern part of Karachi, the country’s largest city and commercial capital, Gul wanted to join Pakistan’s national women’s football team.However, her dream was shattered late last year when she was diagnosed with asthma, and doctors stopped her from intense running.The young girl is one of the tens of thousands of Pakistanis, who develop multiple diseases, including asthma, hearing disorders and different types of infections annually due to ever-increasing air and noise pollution and carbon emissions from lakhs of honking vehicles.According to health experts, increasing noise pollution, especially in the major cities, is the key factor behind a surge in asthma and noise-induced hearing loss, whereas infectious air is the reason for growing ear, throat and eye infections among the people.Besides, Karachi, home to nearly 2 crore people, Pakistan’s second-largest city Lahore, northwestern Peshawar, garrison city of Rawalpindi, and textile hub Faisalabad are too highly polluted. In fact, together with New Delhi and Dhaka, Lahore has topped the daily rankings of the world’s most polluted cities this winter, primarily because of increasing industrialisation...Read more
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