1400 arrested in crackdown on kites in Pakistan
`Police cracking down on flying kites arrested more than 1,400 people over three days at a springtime festival held across eastern Pakistan, an official said.
The kite ban was imposed by provincial authorities after seven people were fatally slashed by kite strings that had been reinforced with wire or glass fibre in the run-up to the annual Basant festival.
While some people resisted the ban, there was only a sprinkling of kites over the city today — a small fraction of the thousands of kites seen in previous years.’
