Brightly coloured kites soared through the skies over the city of Lahore in Pakistan’s Punjab province earlier this month.
The event marked the return of a festival that had been banned 19 years ago.
Families and friends came together for the three-day kite-flying festival. The festival is called Basant, which means spring in Hindi-Urdu. It usually marks the start of the season.
Punjab authorities banned the festival in 2007 due to a series of fatal accidents caused by glass powder-coated kite strings. The very sharp strings, called manja, had hurt and killed people who were walking and riding motorcycles.
But this year, the authorities agreed to allow the festival to run for three days, with extra safety measures in place.
