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

In a decisive move against illegal kite trading, Lahore’s Shafiqabad police have seized over 250 colourful kites during a crackdown on a citywide smuggling operation. The accused, identified as Azhar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police have registered a case under Section 322 (manslaughter) of the Pakistan Penal Code over the death of a 21-year-old man who was killed when a metal-coated kite string slit his throat while he ...

LAHORE, PAKISTAN — Amid all the turmoil of opposition politicians being arrested, activists roughed up and police blocking a “long march” protest, the government recently announced it would lift, for ...

Officials in this leafy cultural capital are struggling to contain a crescendo of terror attacks. But as spring dawns, they have at least eradicated one threat they ...

LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 25 (Reuters Life!) - A ban on a decades-old and colorful tradition of kite-flying has riled many Pakistanis, but authorities say the sport has killed people and encourages ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — Hundreds of people here defied a ban on flying kites, dotting the sky with color to mark the beginning of a traditional two-day spring festival called Basant. Police raided homes ...