Fog affects air, rail, road traffic
From Our Correspondent

LAHORE—Thick fog covered the Provincial Metropolis on Thursday reducing visibility to 30 metre affecting schedule of incoming and outging flights and trains with road traffic moving at snail’s pace till 1.00pm when visibility improved to 600 metre.
According to Local met office fog started descending after 11.00 pm last night and reached its peak around 4.00 am when visibility was reduced to as low as to 30 metre. It started improving after 10.00 am and was 500 metre at 1.00 pm and 800 metre at 3.00 pm.
According to airport sources, a number of incoming and outgoing fights were affected due to poor visibility. A flight from Riydah scheduled to land at 8.30 am was delayed till 4.30 pm while flight from Damam scheuled to land here at 9.00 am was delayed for 13 hours.
Another flight coming from Muscat scheduled to land here at 10.30 was delayed till 9.00 pm. A flight from Dubai suffered delay of over three hours and landed at 3.25 while it was scheduled to reach at 12.00 noon.
Similarly schedule of outgoing flights was also affected and Rome bound flight took off at 3.45 pm while it was scheduled to leave at 1.20 pm. Delhi bound and Damam bound flights were delayed for about 2.30 hours.
The sources said a number of local flights were also affected. According to Railways sources trains arrival and departure schedule was also badly affected with Awami Express arriving at 11.00 am while its scheduled arrival time was 8.15 am.
Karakuram suffered delay of three hours and arrived at 11.30 am while Allama Iqbal Express reached at 1.30 pm against its schedule time of 9.25 am. Tezgam also reached 1.30 hours behind schedule at 3.00 pm.
Transport companies running inter-city bus services, when contacted told that operation of buses was badly affected with most of their vehicles reached much behind scheduled time. In Lahore, most affected areas were Lahore Cantonment, airport area, Kot Lakhpat, Green Town, Wapda Town and the areas with trees and greenery around. However, in the city the situation was slightly better.