Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has taken strict notice after a young man was injured by a deadly kite string in ...

LAHORE: The government has allowed the manufacture of kites and string in Lahore from December 30, while permitting their ...

The government has allowed the manufacture of kites and string from December 30 in preparation for Basant 2026, while the ...

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 authorities have officially permitted Basant 2026 from February 6-8, allowing approved kite materials and registered sellers only ...

A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan's cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country's violence and political turmoil. Lahore's annual Basant ...

LAHORE, Pakistan – Skies normally alive with colorful kites to mark a spring festival were largely empty Sunday after police arrested 1,400 people over three days to enforce a ban imposed because of a ...

LAHORE, Pakistan – At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colorful kites, officials ...

LAHORE, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has extended a ban on making, selling and flying kites that it imposed two months ago after ruling the sport had become increasingly deadly, an official ...

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 — 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 ...