Kabul, Nov. 28 -- The Kabul Municipality has pledged to step up efforts to tackle rising air pollution and appealed to residents to limit the use of fuel during the winter months, Tolo News reported.

Officials warned that household stoves remain a major contributor to deteriorating air quality even before peak winter has set in.

Naematullah Barakzai, a representative of the Kabul Municipality, said the pollution crisis is driven largely by smoke from small residential structures.

"The air pollution we're currently seeing in Kabul is largely due to individual homes' single or two-story houses that have one or two stoves. Our request to citizens is: this is winter, let's try to heat our homes with minimal fuel use. We ask all residents t...