{"id":110038,"date":"2026-04-28T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=110038"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:59:39","slug":"sbp-announces-bank-holiday-on-may-1st-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/sbp-announces-bank-holiday-on-may-1st-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"SBP announces bank holiday on May 1st: Here&#8217;s why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/state-bank-of-pakistan-directs-jazzcash-users-to-complete-biometric-verification\/\">State Bank of Pakistan<\/a> has announced that all banks and financial institutions across the country will remain closed on Tuesday, May 1 (Friday) on the occasion of Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Bank, this decision has been taken following the government notification declaring May 1 as a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>All public and private banks, as well as development finance institutions and microfinance banks, will remain closed on the said date.<\/p>\n<p>Public and private banks and other financial institutions will reopen on Monday, May 4, 2026 and resume normal operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan has announced that all banks and financial institutions across the country will remain closed on Tuesday, May 1 (Friday) on the occasion of Labor Day. According to the State Bank, this decision has been taken following the government notification declaring May 1 as a public holiday. All public and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[572,599],"class_list":["post-110038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-sbp","tag-state-bank-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110038","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110039,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110038\/revisions\/110039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}