In the streets of Lahore there are hints that the kite flying festival, Basant, has returned. Someone is fishing a kite from electricity cables, the distant sound of a drum beat, a flash of neon when ...

A burst of color lit up Lahore’s night sky overnight as Pakistan’s cultural capital relaunched the Basant kite-flying festival after nearly two decades.

Clean Monday—the beginning of Lent among Orthodox Christians—is the day Greeks fly kites, symbolic of the Resurrection.

Pakistan Kite Flying Permission: The government has clarified that kite flying can now be done, but only under the prescribed rules and safety standards. Kite flying gets a green signal in Pakistan.

NORTH TONAWANDA — Ted Shaw did not get into kite flying until his mid-50s, when he was going through a depressive state. What helped him get out of it was looking through a catalog of kites. Now 78 ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — Ahead of this month's springtime festival of Basant, people crammed shoulder to shoulder into the narrow, dimly lit streets near Mochi Gate in Lahore's Old City, looking for kites ...