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.

LAHORE, Pakistan (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 "immoral ...

Hundreds of young Pakistanis in the city of Rawalpindi perched on rooftops on Friday to celebrate a colorful kite flying festival, defying a ban imposed by the authorities since 2007.

The UNC Pakistan Society (PakSoc) will hold the Basant Kite Flying Festival, a celebration of the arrival of spring through the flying traditional Pakistani kites on the Field from 3-6 p.m. on ...

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 ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — Hundreds of kites filled the skies of Pakistan’s cultural capital on Saturday, the opening day of a traditional spring festival, despite a ban that followed the deaths ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- 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 ...

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

Promote kite flying in open, ground-based areas and not on rooftops makar sankranti 2025: most common mishaps during kite flying festival, the do's and don’ts to follow ...

It's fun. It's harmless." But Pakistan's Supreme Court banned kite-flying nationwide in 2005 in response to an outcry over injuries and deaths caused every year by the glass-coated string.