{"id":1157975,"date":"2026-02-06T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1157975"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:40:21","slug":"punjab-police-intensify-crackdown-on-illegal-kite-flying-in-sargodha-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/punjab-police-intensify-crackdown-on-illegal-kite-flying-in-sargodha-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Police intensify crackdown on illegal kite flying in Sargodha division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>SARGODHGA, Feb 06 (APP):Punjab police on Friday launched a major operation against illegal kite flying and the use of dangerous metallic kite strings across the division.<\/div>\n<div>The crackdown was part of efforts to enforce the Anti-Kite Flying Act and ensure public safety.<\/div>\n<div>The operation covers several districts,including Bhakkar,Khushab,Mianwali and Sargodha.<\/div>\n<div>According to Regional Police Officer (RPO) Asif Shehzad Khan,any form of kite flying outside approved regulations was now deemed intolerable.<\/div>\n<div>He emphasized that violators will face strict legal action,adding that in Lahore, Basant festivities were only permitted on specific days under government guidelines.<\/div>\n<div>435 cases have been filed under the Anti-Kite Flying Act, resulting in the arrest of numerous suspects.<\/div>\n<div>During the operation,authorities seized 4,568 kites and 1,108 reels of kite string.<\/div>\n<div>In Sargodha alone, 216 cases were registered,177 arrests were made and 1,755 kites and 1,422 reels of string were confiscated.<\/div>\n<div>RPO Khan also called for action against online vendors selling metallic kite strings and kites.<\/div>\n<div>He urged parents to keep their children away from this hazardous activity to protect lives and asked citizens to report any illegal kite flying by calling 15.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARGODHGA, Feb 06 (APP):Punjab police on Friday launched a major operation against illegal kite flying and the use of dangerous metallic kite strings across the division. The crackdown was part of efforts to enforce the Anti-Kite Flying Act and ensure public safety. The operation covers several districts,including Bhakkar,Khushab,Mianwali and Sargodha. According to Regional Police Officer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":942371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1308,7479,6737,335],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1157975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-crackdown","tag-illegal-kite-flying","tag-punjab-police","tag-sargodhga-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157975"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1157975"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1157975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}