Seven people, including two children and a student, have died in such accidents in Lahore in the past two weeks. All were killed as they rode on motor-bikes.

Insane!

They coat the strings in broken glass?!!!

yea, I read a book about this, the kids in Afghanistan would coat the string with glass, in competition with hundreds of others trying to be the last kite in the air. Sounds pretty fun actually, unfortunately it resulted in an unfortunate death