Colour and caution as banned kite-flying festival returns to Pakistan
Teona Gherasim
Punjab authorities banned the kite-flying festival Basant in 2007 due to a series of fatal accidents. ISLAMABAD: Brightly coloured kites soared through the skies over Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore this weekend, marking the return of a festival after a 19-year ban that had been imposed over safety concerns. Families and groups of friends gathered on rooftops and in parks and streets for the three-day kite-flying festival in Punjab province, known as 'Basant', the Urdu language word for the
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