Each year, Basant is celebrated across Pakistan by flying kites, despite the fact that it is banned owing to the fatalities and injuries associated with kite flying. Though law enforcement agencies endeavour to limit kite flying, the general public, particularly the youngsters, leave no stone unturned in making the festival a ‘success’. They do not understand the fact that kite-flying is prohibited for their safety, and for the safety of other citizens.

A few days back, I happened to be in the Emergency ward of DHQ hospital, Rawalpindi. In those days, one could see numerous kites soaring in the sky in that area. No doubt, there had to be injuries linked to them.

In just over an hour that I spent there, I witnessed at least four individuals coming to the emergency ward and getting their profusely-bleeding wounds stitched. Further alarming was the fact that all of them were young children. One child had a........

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