LAHORE: Police have arrested 79 accused in 71 cases of kite flying in the whole city.
According to police sources, 500 ki
tes, 50 charkhian, 50 pinidor and 60 guchidor were recovered.
Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif imposed a comple
te ban on the Basant fe
stival due to deaths caus
ed by sharply polished threads used to fly kites.
But, despite the ban on kite flying, some people still manufactured and flew kites, disobeying the
law
