LAHORE, Pakistan – The death of a 4-year-old boy whose throat was slit by a low-flying kite string coated with glass has prompted authorities to forbid kite-flying in eastern Pakistan. Shayan Ahmad ...

The Punjab government is planning to partially revive the Basant festival after nearly three decades, permitting celebrations under strict regulations at specific venues like open fields and hotel ...

Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime. Already it’s banned for all but 15 days of the year but a provincial minister warned kite-flyers this week that any who cause injury or death with ...

LAHORE: A few days after the Punjab government reviewed a proposal to revive the Basant festival in the city on a limited scale under strict regulation, blatant violation of the ban on kite flying ...

Lahore police have seized 35,726 kites and 1,791 spools of metal string during a citywide crackdown on kite flying this year, ...

The Punjab government is considering partially restoring the Basant festival after 28 years, allowing the event to be celebrated under strict conditions at select locations such as open grounds and ...

Light Within on the colourful festival of Basant that involves a lot of kiteflying and the prevalent controversy. “First it was the Punjab government announcing that they would set up a body to ensure ...

In many parts of Pakistan, especially in Lahore, traditionally people used to celebrate the Basant (spring) festival by flying kites. But this tradition has been under the wire for a while. In 2005 a ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, March 19 (UNHCR) - "If the kite was the gun, then tar, the glass-coated cutting line, was the bullet in the chamber." This is how UNHCR Goodwill Envoy Khaled Hosseini describes the ...