ISLAMABAD: A joint study by Pakistan’s Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU) and China’s Yunnan Academy of Agricultural ...

In Lahore, Basant was regarded as the "king of festivals," with preparations beginning weeks in advance. Markets would be adorned with colorful kites, and the city would glow with illuminated ...

Kite flying groups have been defiant, with the Rawalpindi Kite Flying Association saying it plans to celebrate Basant on February 13 and 14. Sheikh Saleem, a former chief of Lahore’s kite flying ...

“Lahore had a festival called Basant and now it’s banned. We only can use our imagination to think about it. The city looked more colourful while standing on the rooftops of the houses during ...

Police from various stations in the city presented a total of 115 kite flyers and sellers arrested during the Basant festival on ... total control messages to Lahore. In the registered cases ...

Basant was a roaring success ... The actor was only 26 at the time. She lived in Lahore for the remainder of her life, where she died in 1989, at the age of 63. Many of the records set by her ...