Eight kite sellers, flyers arrested in special crackdown.

RAWALPINDI -- The Rawalpindi district police on the directives of City Police Officer, Syed Khalid Mehmood Hamdani here on Thursday continued a special crackdown against kite sellers and flyers and managed to net eight.

According to a police spokesman, all police stations of the district had been directed to accelerate ongoing operations against kite-flying ban violators while special teams constituted to control kite-flying under the supervision of senior police officers were conducting raids in different areas.

The spokesman said that Taxila, Waris Khan, Gungmandi, and Chakri police conducted raids and recovered hundreds of kites, kite flying string rolls, two 30-bore pistols and ammunition from the possession of arrested accused identified as...