A blanket of thick smog has settled over swaths of South Asia. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Indian capital Delhi and the surrounding region, which is home to an estimated 34 million people.
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Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.
