{"id":60049,"date":"2020-01-19T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60049"},"modified":"2020-01-20T04:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T04:15:53","slug":"appma-seeks-resumption-kite-flying-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/appma-seeks-resumption-kite-flying-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"APPMA seeks resumption of kite flying festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) President and Founder of Kite Flying Festival Khwaja Nadeem Saeed said that the reinstatement of kite flying festival would help the government earn billions of rupees, as well as represent the country on an international level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-organise-festivals-highlight-culture-merged-tribes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"KP to organise festivals to highlight culture of merged districts (opens in a new tab)\">KP to organise festivals to highlight culture of merged districts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further stated that by implementing sufficient security measures, the festival could have been rendered completely harmless but no such attention was paid and millions of people lost their income source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lahore-taxis-display-digital-advertisements.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lahore taxis to display digital advertisements (opens in a new tab)\">Lahore taxis to display digital advertisements<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that kite flying would appeal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-ranked-best-holiday-destination-international-travel-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"international tourists (opens in a new tab)\">international tourists<\/a> and create employment opportunities for the general public. He requested the government to constitute a committee for the revival of the said festival; adding that the APPMA would provide all possible support on this front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lahore-master-plan-pkr-0-75-bn-drafting-budget-allocated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lahore Master Plan: PKR 750 mn drafting budget allocated (opens in a new tab)\">Lahore Master Plan: PKR 750 mn drafting budget allocated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The\nkite flying festival was incorporated by India because no solid steps were\ntaken to ensure the security of the festival here. Millions of people used to\ncome to Punjab for the festival but it was halted due to the loss of precious\nlives,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) President and Founder of Kite Flying Festival Khwaja Nadeem Saeed said that the reinstatement of kite flying festival would help the government earn billions of rupees, as well as represent the country on an international level. Read: KP to organise festivals to highlight culture of merged districts He further stated that by implementing sufficient security measures, the festival could have been rendered completely harmless but no such attention was paid and millions of people lost their income source. Read: Lahore taxis to display digital advertisements He stated that kite flying would appeal to international tourists and create employment opportunities for the general public. He requested the government to constitute a committee for the revival of the said festival; adding that the APPMA would provide all possible support on this front. Read: Lahore Master Plan: PKR 750 mn drafting budget allocated \u2018The kite flying festival was incorporated by India because no solid steps were taken to ensure the security of the festival here. Millions of people used to come to Punjab for the festival but it was halted due to the loss of precious lives,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":60023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[15085,15084],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-festival","9":"tag-kite-flying","10":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APPMA seeks resumption of kite flying festival - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) President and Founder of Kite Flying Festival Khwaja Nadeem Saeed said that the reinstatement of kite flying\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/appma-seeks-resumption-kite-flying-festival.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APPMA seeks resumption of kite flying festival - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) President and Founder of Kite Flying Festival Khwaja Nadeem Saeed said that the reinstatement of kite flying\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/appma-seeks-resumption-kite-flying-festival.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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