The bad news is that 11 people died and over 100 others were injured in an eastern Pakistani kite flying festival. You read that correctly. The Pakistanis have managed to turn flying a kite into an activity where people are regularly maimed and killed. The machoism in that part of the world is apparently at such a deep level that men will fly kites with a string which amounts to nothing more than razor wire, dive bombing each other’s kites in an effort to snap the others’ strings. This inevitably results in numerous bystanders getting their throats slashed. Most of the other dead and wounded fell victim to stray gunfire and gravity.

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