"I was crying and trying to stop the vehicles to take him to the hospital," he recalled horrifying moments still vivid in his memory.
His son, Javed, who was only 6 when he died, was sitting in front of his father on a motorbike when a stray razor-sharp string cut his throat leaving him in a pool of blood.
Sulieman, a sales agent by profession, rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he breathed his last.
Basant is a festival celebrating the arrival of spring in the entire Indian subcontinent, and particularly in Pakistan, with many flying kites from rooftops.
Once a source of enjoyment and happiness for Lahoriites, it turned bloody over the last six years due to inclusion of money, glamour and government patronage.
Normal kite-flying had been the only event of Basant festival till six years back, but the induction of razor-sharp string, and contest of aerial firing on the rooftops have resulted in deaths of hundreds of citizens, mostly children, and massive power breakdowns in the city for various days.
"My son was not the only victim of kite-flying string at the hospital," recalled Sulieman, with a heavy heart.
"Three other children were also lying on the beds unconscious."
Taking notice of several deaths due to kite-flying string, the Supreme Court last year banned the festival.
Though, the government imposes a strict ban on aerial firing and use of banned string, police appear to be helpless as the violators include high-power politicians, government functionaries and other bigwigs.
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan blasted the government over failures to bring law violators to justice. It also accused the government of promoting secularism.
"The military regime is engaged in promoting events such as mixed marathons and Basant instead of taking any concrete measures for resolving the basic problems like unemployment, poverty, price-hike and lawlessness," said Ghafoor Ahmad, the group’s deputy chief President Musharraf and other government officials have been attending Basant parties for last three years.
"We will celebrate Basant too. The minority of religious extremists cannot dictate to us," he said to the concluding ceremony of a mixed marathon in Lahore a few weeks ago.
