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

The Lahore administration has announced strict safety and regulatory measures for the Basant festival scheduled from February ...

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, 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 ...

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 – 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 — 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 ...

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 ...

Asadullah, 23, was riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northeastern city of Lahore when a stray kite string slit his throat open, killing him on the spot. A fresh graduate from university, who had joined ...

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 ...

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 ...