{"id":109141,"date":"2026-04-23T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109141"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:35:04","slug":"three-day-holidays-and-advance-salaries-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/three-day-holidays-and-advance-salaries-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-day holidays and advance salaries announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Citizens are likely to get a three-day long weekend next week as a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/public-holiday-announced-on-may-01-2\/\">public holiday<\/a> is coinciding with weekly holidays.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2026 calendar of public holidays, May 1 has been declared a public holiday on the occasion of Mazdoor Day.<\/p>\n<p>This year, May 1 falls on a Friday, while Saturday and Sunday will be the usual weekly holidays in government institutions and many private organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the continuous holidays, the government has issued instructions to pay the salaries of government employees in advance to ensure timely payment.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial finance department has directed that salaries be paid on April 30 so that employees can get financial assistance during the long weekend, which will also include May 2 (Saturday) and May 3 (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Pakistan has already issued an official notification of government, bank, and optional holidays for 2026, confirming May 1 as a public holiday across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Citizens are likely to get a three-day long weekend next week as a public holiday is coinciding with weekly holidays. According to the 2026 calendar of public holidays, May 1 has been declared a public holiday on the occasion of Mazdoor Day. This year, May 1 falls on a Friday, while Saturday and Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":79892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[40712],"class_list":["post-109141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-three-day-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109143,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109141\/revisions\/109143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}