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 – 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 of seven ...

LAHORE, Pakistan -- The skies over this eastern Pakastani city were once dotted with brightly colored kites that swooped and looped in intense dogfights. But now the kites have disappeared -- at least ...

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 — 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 ...

A high-level consultative meeting chaired by Punjab Home Secretary Dr. Ahmad Javed Qazi, was held at the Home Department to examine the feasibility of organising a 'safe Basant' under strict ...

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 ...

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 — Iqbal Aslam and four buddies meandered through the narrow alleyways. Centuries-old brick houses and apartment buildings loomed over them, shrouding the streets in a surreal dusk.

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 — Ah, springtime: Pretty kites flutter skyward on wisps of wind, then tear into each other so savagely that blood flows as if it were chain saw season in Texas. Watch as Rehman Ghani, ...