Recent heatwaves and a number of deaths due to illegal kite strings have seen many abandoning the once popular pastime.

Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime. Already it’s banned for all but 15 days of the year but a provincial minister warned kite-flyers this week that any who cause injury or death with ...

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 ...

Driving down the road along a bluff overlooking the beach, the side mirror mounting suddenly squeaked raucously and violently spun off after fouling the string of a kite flown above the bluff from the ...

Go fly a kite and be changed. As an avid kite flier, Nicole “Nic” O’Neill notices a transformation in herself when she flies a kite. It doesn’t matter if she’s standing on a beach making loop-de-loops ...

On a recent afternoon with springtime in the rising breeze, something else wonderful was in the air: a kite. Shortly, a second kite took flight as well. Like bookends separated by a row of volumes, ...

Commuters experienced a brief scare at Jafrabad Metro station after a blast-like noise, later attributed to a kite string ...