Optional holiday
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Monday March 6, 2023
Hinduism : All Hindu employees of all autonomous, semi-autonomous, and government organizations that fall under the adminisare given holidays on the occasion of Holi.
Regional holiday
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Wednesday March 8, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Shab-e-Barat in the Sindh region (Karachi)
Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima
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Wednesday March 8, 2023
Culture : From 2019 onwards
Optional holiday
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Wednesday March 8, 2023
Hinduism : Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima Hindu community
Pakistan Expo Asia International Exhibition
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Friday March 10, 2023
Tradeshows : Www.engineeringasia.net/ lasts 3 days - in Karachi 2023 edition confirmed
Regional holiday
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Saturday March 11, 2023
Secular holiday : Connection with urs of Hazrat Madhu Lal Hussain in Lahore
Regional holiday
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Monday March 20, 2023
Secular holiday : Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi's day: a spiritual leader of the Hur Freedom Movement during Pakistan's freedom struggle against British colonialists. Sindh state only [Wikipedia]
Banks are closed
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Wednesday March 22, 2023
Banks only :
Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday March 23, 2023
cards/flowers :
Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday March 23, 2023
Banks only : Originally Ramadama is the name of the ninth month in the Arab world.
It is, above all, a month of fasting.
Fasting was not born with Islam. The abstaining from eating and drinking is mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, preceding the prophet Muhammad.
Thus, in the Bible, it is mentioned that Queen Esther asked the Jews to fast for three days before asking her husband to spare the Jews.
According to the New Testament, Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert. Referring to this episode, Christianity has a fasting period of 40 days called Lent .
Today, the fasting period of practicing Catholics lasts from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday.
The start of Ramadan generally depends on local observation of the moon crescent, but others choose the calculation of the new moon or the statement of Saudi Arabia to determine the start of the fasting period.
The three main prohibitions of Ramadan are: eat, drink and have sex,
It is possible to swallow one's own saliva, but not the water with which mouth was rinsed.
Practitioners can go swimming or take a shower, as long as they do not swallow water.
Alcohol-based perfume is prohibited.
Nail biting is allowed as long as nails are clean.
Dates fruit are recommended after breaking of the fast, provided they do not come from Israel.
Travelers, pregnant or nursing or menstruating women are allowed to stop fasting.
Practitioners usually gain weight during this period.
Punishments are particularly heavy year Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan Resolution Day
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Thursday March 23, 2023
Secular holiday : On 23rd of March, 1940, at the Muslim League's 27th session, under Quaid-e-Azam's leadership, Mr. A.K. Fazlul Haq moved a resolution and demanded a separate sovereign state for the Muslims in the North West and Eastern zones of the Indian Sub-continent. Actual name of celebration is RESOLUTION DAY.
Hazrat Madhu Lal Hussain Death Anniversary (Lahore only)
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Saturday March 25, 2023
Culture : Hussain was a disciple of Sheikh Bahlol Daryai Chinioti. Following his masters advice, he studied mysticism and spent 12 years in penance at the shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh. Like all Sufis, he was a nonconformist and did not believe in ritualism but direct communion with the Almighty. He even shaved off his beard and moustache. Hussains love for a Brahmin boy called Madhu or Madhu Lal is famous, and they are often referred together as Madhu Lal Hussain. Madhus tomb lies next to Hussains in the shrine.
Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Punjab
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Friday March 31, 2023
School holidays :
Spring holiday (beginning) - Sindh
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Friday March 31, 2023
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end) - Sindh
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Saturday April 1, 2023
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Tuesday April 4, 2023
Secular holiday : To mark the death anniversary of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Karachi and Lahore only
Optional holiday
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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Good Friday Christian community
Easter
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Sunday April 9, 2023
cards/flowers : From 2019 onwards
Ramadan holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday April 18, 2023
School holidays :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Saturday April 22, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Sunday April 23, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday April 24, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Regional holiday
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Tuesday April 25, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Ascension of Muhammad in Karachi
Ramadan holiday (end)
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Friday April 28, 2023
School holidays :
Beginning of school year - Sindh
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Monday May 1, 2023
School holidays :
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Summer holiday (beginning) - Sindh
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday June 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Regional holiday
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Friday June 30, 2023
Secular holiday : UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visit in Islamabad only
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday June 30, 2023
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.
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Saturday July 1, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Summer holiday (beginning) - Punjab
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Saturday July 1, 2023
School holidays :
Banks are closed
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Monday July 3, 2023
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Monday July 3, 2023
Banks only :
Summer holiday (end) - Sindh
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Monday July 17, 2023
School holidays :
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday July 19, 2023
cards/flowers :
Ashura
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Thursday July 27, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Ashura
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Friday July 28, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (end) - Punjab
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Monday August 7, 2023
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Monday August 14, 2023
Secular holiday : Pakistan was formed on August 14, 1947 with two parts in the eastern and northwestern regions of South Asia, separated by Hindu-majority India. [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia]
Arbor Day
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Friday August 18, 2023
Culture :
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday September 28, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :