After nearly 18 years, the Punjab government has lifted the ban on Basant, allowing the kite festival to return to Lahore this week. The decision brings back one of the city's most prominent cultural ...

For centuries, spring in the agrarian Punjab region arrived with a burst of colors — yellow mustard fields in bloom and kites rising over Lahore’s skyline. But kites have been missing over the past ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — 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. Authorities said Friday ...

After an 18-year hiatus, Lahore, Pakistan’s vibrant cultural and historic hub, celebrates Basant kite festival, complete with colourful rooftops, music and strict safety rules.

The vibrant celebration, banned for two decades, brightened the eastern city of Lahore, where residents face alarming levels of air pollution and political restrictions. The skies over Lahore, ...

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 ...

Vendors sell kites in a market area near Mochi Gate ahead of the springtime festival Basant in Lahore, Pakistan. This is the first time in 19 years that the kite festival has been held legally in the ...