Lahore Kite Flying Association (AKFA) has appealed to the Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif to afresh rules of game for kite-flying and issue orders for revival of Kite Flying Festival along with Jashn-e-Baharan.
President of Lahore Kite Flying Festival and All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) leader Khawaja Nadeem Saeed Wayeen was talking to the delegations of the people attached with kite flying industry from Lahore, Kasur, Gujranwala, Okara, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad and other areas of the provinces.
Khawaja Nadeem said kite-flying industry had attached high hopes with Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif who was taking revolutionary measures to make the Punjab hub of trade and economic activities in true sense of word. "I have given the proposal of establishment of Kite City well out of the premises of the city to the Punjab government but bureaucracy has never even bothered to reply in this regard," he said. He said thousands of women were earning income by making kites at their homes but now sitting idle and their families compelled for starvation because of a complete ban on Kite Flying Festival. He said around 150,000 people in Lahore, 100,000 people in Gujranwala and 80,000 people in Kasur, affiliated with kite flying industry, had lost their employment and facing hunger.
He lamented that some very sad incidents took place due to involvement of elements with the vested interests and cultural activity became a bloody game but instead of dealing with them with an iron hand, the festival was done away with altogether. They said the ban was not solution of the problem.
He appealed to CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif to review rules and regulations for kite flying and order to establish kite city/kite flying zone at a safe place outside Lahore that would not only revive the employment of millions people but would also undo the negative image of the country in particular and Punjab in general.
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