Arrests soar in clampdown on Lahore's deadly kite-flyers
Asif Shahzad, Associated Press in Lahore
Monday March 13, 2006
The Guardian
Police cracking down on kite-flying arrested more than 1,400 people over three days at a festival held across eastern Pakistan, an official said yesterday.
The kite ban was imposed by provincial authorities after seven people were fatally slashed by kite strings which had been reinforced with wire or glass fibre in the run-up to the springtime Basant festival. There was only a sprinkling of kites over the city yesterday, a small fraction of the thousands of kites seen in previous years.