In Pakistan the Punjab chief minister's adviser on...

In Pakistan the Punjab chief minister's adviser on law and human rights, Mr Rana Ejaz Ahmad Khan, announced that kite-flyers would face murder charges and a possible death penalty if their sharpened strings caused more deaths.
Several people had had their throats cut in 2003 by strings that were either metallic or coated with abrasive materials, the BBC reported.
It said police throughout the province had been instructed to treat such deaths as murder cases.
Kite flyers use metallic strings or coat them with glass shards to take part in 'dog fights' where the objective was to cut their opponent's string, the BBC said. Mr Khan said that dangerous kite flying practices had forced the government to take this extreme measure as some of the victims were young children.
He said the government had the authority to consider chemically finished and metallic strings as offensive weapons.