With moderate wind speeds, area families gathered in Hamlin Park Saturday to fly colorful handmade and ready-made kites with pride. Saturday’s event was just one of many offered by the Skokie Park ...

A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan's cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country's violence and political turmoil. Lahore's annual Basant ...

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 ...

Kite Association has announced to celebrate Basant on Friday and Basant Night in Rawalpindi city today (Thursday), defying the district government's orders of a complete ban on kite flying and selling ...

The Kite Flying Association of Rawalpindi and Islamabad has announced two separate Basant festivals in defiance of the government's strict ban on kite flying. The revised schedule designates one ...

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 ...