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Pakistan: Ban on kite-flying defied by the people mostly in Lahore

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LAHORE, 28 April, 2021 (TON): Despite ban and police crackdown on the kite manufacturers, the kite business is thriving in Pakistan’s populous Punjab province, as most sellers have moved online, industry insiders and authorities said.

On 10 April, the kite seller was detained in Lahore for online selling kites despite of the ban imposed in 2005 on celebrating the festival of Basant.

After being released on bail the next day, the retailer was cited by the investigators, “I receive orders online, sometimes on the phone, from many circles, and the business keeps on thriving despite the ban on kite-flying. My customers range from shopkeepers to elite people.”

However, kite-flying has long been a passion in South Asia, and for decades the Basant celebration would transform Pakistan’s skies with hundreds of thousands of kites to commemorate the advent of spring.

But in 2005, the Supreme Court banned the celebration after 19 people died from injuries caused by stray strings.

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