Punjab’s sky full of kites after 18 years of prohibition

After greater than eighteen years of prohibition, the skies over Lahore are as soon as once more full of kites as the town relives the joy of the Basant competition this weekend, a centuries-old celebration of spring and certainly one of Punjab’s main non-religious cultural occasions. The revival raises the query of whether or not it marks the beginning of a long-lasting custom or merely a short lived interlude earlier than a doable return of the ban. A report from Pakistan by correspondents Shahzaib Wahlah and Ondine de Gaulle.