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Jubilation in Lahore with return of historic kite festival

NPR | By Betsy Joles

Published February 21, 2026 at 3:16 PM MST

The Pakistani city of Lahore celebrated the revival of a historic kite festival called Basant last weekend, 19 years after kite flying there was deemed too dangerous and banned.

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