After injuries and fatalities caused by sharp strings, falls and celebratory gunfire, an event that dates back centuries returns.

People gathered on rooftops to enjoy flying kites for the first time in years, celebrating the spring festival of Basant. The activity had been banned due to injuries and deaths during past ...

Authorities carried out a special crackdown on kite flying during the Sunday holiday, arresting 13 individuals who were caught violating the ban.

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 ...

On a recent afternoon with springtime in the rising breeze, something else wonderful was in the air: a kite. Shortly, a second kite took flight as well. Like bookends separated by a row of volumes, ...

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 ...

Go fly a kite and be changed. As an avid kite flier, Nicole “Nic” O’Neill notices a transformation in herself when she flies a kite. It doesn’t matter if she’s standing on a beach making loop-de-loops ...