| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mount Arafat Day - Monday July 19, 2021 Secular holiday : Commemorates the day the Prophet Abraham took his son Ishmael out into the wilderness to sacrifice him to God. As he raised the knife to take his only son's life in obedience to God's command, his hand was stopped and the Lord provided a ram in Ishmael's place.
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Sacrifice Day - Tabaski - Id-el-Kabir (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday July 20, 2021 Muslim, Sufi : The second main celebration of Islam. It celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. Paid holiday when falling on Friday or Saturday
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Wednesday July 21, 2021 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Thursday July 22, 2021 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Sunday July 25, 2021 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (end) - Tuesday August 10, 2021 School holidays :
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| Independence Day - Thursday August 19, 2021 Secular holiday : Commemorates the 1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919 which granted independence from Britain. The day was celebrated until 1992, when mujahedeen overthrew the former communist regime. The Taliban restored the celebration in 1996.
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| Ashura - Thursday August 19, 2021 Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice.
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| Pachtuns' Day (can be day before or day after) - Tuesday August 31, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Heroes Day - Thursday September 9, 2021 Banks only : In tribute to Ahmad Shah Massoud (September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001), a military and political leader in Afghanistan known as the 'Lion of Panjshir'
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| Day of Mourning - Monday September 20, 2021 cards/flowers : President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.
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