Colour and caution as banned kite-flying festival returns to Pakistan

Families and groups of friends gathered on rooftops and in parks and streets for the three-day kite-flying festival in Punjab province, known as 'Basant', the Urdu language word for the spring season it traditionally marks the arrival of. "Everyone is excited - all of Punjab, all of Pakistan. It has become hard to find kites and strings because they sold out," said Shahzaib, a kite flyer, with drums playing in the background. Punjab authorities banned the festival in 2007 due to a series of fatal...