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In Pakistan’s Punjab, kite sellers find new customers with ‘illegal’ online business

  • Supreme Court banned the Basant kite festival in 2005 after 19 people were decapitated by stray strings reinforced with glass and chemicals
  • Kite Flying Association says shopkeepers and online sellers still generating up to Rs20 million a season selling kites and strings
By SUMEERA RIAZ ·
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No-Kite-Fly Zone: Pakistan’s kite-makers pushed to have Basant canceled

By MUBASHER BUKHARI ·

No Basant in Punjab this year, says senior provincial minister

By Arab News Pakistan ·

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