Kite Carnival Frenzy Grips Lahore

Five million people are expected to throng Lahore next weekend for Basant, the spring festival of Hindu origin that has become Muslim-majority Pakistan’s most riotous street party. Glamorous stars of Lollywood (as the local film industry is known), wealthy business families and tens of thousands of the city’s poor will cram on to rooftops to celebrate under a sky of fluttering kites. “Since 9/11, people think Pakistanis are terrorists but it’s not true…