SC issues notice to Punjab on Kite-flying Permission
Pakistan Times Wire Service

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan summoned Punjab government to account for the conditional permission it issued regarding kite flying in the province.

Acting Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Rana Bhagwan Das Friday issued a notice to Advocate General Punjab and directed him to elicit a detailed report from Chief Secretary Punjab and present it to the court on January 22.

Last year, a full bench of the apex court presided over by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, took a suo motu notice of children’s death in kite flying incidents and banned the kite flying across the country.

However, the Punjab Government yesterday conditionally allowed kite flying in the province.

Meanwhile, the committee, which was made by the Punjab government, prepared the recommendations and precautions under the guidance provided by Supreme Court of Pakistan and these recommendations will be presented to the apex court.

Chairman Planning and Development and the chief of the committee instituted by the government, Salman Ghani said that the government approved these recommendations compiled by the committee as precautionary measures in connection with Basant.

The elaborate strategy has been hammered out with an eye to the economic and deleterious aspects of basant, he said adding, “rules and regulations have been specified regarding the size of kites, its material, the nature of cord and forming an association on community level.