Air pollution has become one of Pakistan's major political concerns recently and there is a need to develop and implement appropriate instruments to improve air quality. In this regard, the paper aims to explore the issue of air pollution in the context of Pakistan to suggest appropriate measures that can be used to improve the overall air quality of the country. Based on a qualitative framework, it analyses the existing regulations and legislations pertaining to air pollution in Pakistan in an effort to highlight the limitations and gaps so that the areas of improvement could be identified. In this regard, the air quality directives set by the European Union which are a series of Directives setting ambient air quality standards to provide protection from excessive pollution concentrations, based on the latest research on the health effects of air pollution, are used as role models to enact domestic legislation in the area and ensure its implementation as well. The paper contends that the air quality in Pakistan is worsening on a daily basis because of the absence of a robust policy like that of the European Union which can keep air pollution levels in check. It therefore suggests the formulation of the Pakistan Air Pollution Act along with the Pakistan Air Quality Plan, mirrored on the principles of the European Union’s air quality directives to address the sources responsible for air pollution and to ensure compliance with the international limit values set with regards to the concentration of certain pollutants that can be found in the air.