{"id":8836,"date":"2026-02-06T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:19:20","slug":"basant-festival-returns-to-lahore-after-25-years-amid-tragic-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"Basant Festival Returns to Lahore After 25 Years Amid Tragic Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahore (HRNW)- After a long period of 25 years, the Basant festival is being celebrated, which was formally inaugurated by Provincial Information Minister Uzma Bukhari at 12 midnight by flying a kite. However, in the tragic incidents that took place during this time, an 18-year-old Zain died after falling from a roof while flying a kite in Madina Colony Baghbanpura. In another incident, three members of the same family (father, uncle and nephew) were injured after getting electrocuted while flying a kite in Sabzazar area and were immediately shifted to the hospital.<\/p>\n

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Lahore (HRNW)- After a long period of 25 years, the Basant festival is being celebrated, which was formally inaugurated by Provincial Information Minister Uzma Bukhari at 12 midnight by flying a kite. However, in the tragic incidents that took place during this time, an 18-year-old Zain died after falling from a roof while flying a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8839,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions\/8839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}