Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan on December 16 in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in the megacity of Lahore, the government said. In the first experiment of its kind in the country, planes equipped with cloud-seeding equipment flew over 10 areas of the city, ranked one of the worst places globally for air pollution. The "gift" was provided by the U.A.E., said the caretaker chief minister of Punjab, Mohsin Naqvi. The U.A.E. has used cloud seeding, sometimes referred to as artificial rain, to create rain in the arid expanse of that country.
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