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Basant

Basant is an annual kite-flying festival celebrated in Pakistan in February. It is a major cultural festival where people fly colorful kites of various shapes and sizes all day and night. Competitions are held among kite flyers, with victories determined by the quality of the special thread used to fly kites. However, the festival was banned in 2007 due to some people using dangerous chemicals on the kite-flying strings that harmed human beings.

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Basant

Basant is an annual kite-flying festival celebrated in Pakistan in February. It is a major cultural festival where people fly colorful kites of various shapes and sizes all day and night. Competitions are held among kite flyers, with victories determined by the quality of the special thread used to fly kites. However, the festival was banned in 2007 due to some people using dangerous chemicals on the kite-flying strings that harmed human beings.

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Basant

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community


and centering on some characteristic aspect of that
community and its religion or traditions. It is often marked as
a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.
Basant is a big festival of Pakistan it is also known as a Jashn-e-
Baharan. It is celebrated in February of each year. The kite lovers like
to fly kites day and night. Parties are designed to celebrate it. People
planned different type of the get together to meet each other. Sky is
full with colorful kites of different shapes and sizes day and night.
Many people organized the different competition in city especially
Androon Lahore. These competitions are extremely serious and the
victories depend on the quality of Dorr (special thread use to fly the
kites). This festival gained the attention more and more over the years
from all over the world. Many visitors come to Lahore to attend this
festival. Its increase the Pakistani tourism many outsiders come to
Lahore especially to see this event. Women also participate in this
event they wear yellow and green dresses to make this festival more
colorful. This beautiful festival is banned from 2007 because of some
dishonest people who used the dangerous chemical in Dorr which was
harmful for human beings

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