{"id":17374,"date":"2023-06-22T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17374"},"modified":"2023-06-22T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:03:41","slug":"eid-ul-adha-govt-finally-announces-arafah-day-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eid-ul-adha-govt-finally-announces-arafah-day-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid ul Adha: Govt finally announces Arafah Day holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Days after announcing a three-day Eid ul Adha holiday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday also announced a public holiday on the Day of Arafah \u2014 June 28 (Wednesday) \u2014\u00a0<i>Geo News<\/i>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In supersession of earlier orders of even number dated 20.06.2023, on the above subject, the Prime Minister has been pleased to approve the public holidays on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>28th, 29th a 30th June, 2023 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) for the offices observing five days working in a week;<\/li>\n<li>and 28th June to 1&#8243; July, 2023 (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday) for the offices observing six days working in a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier, the government had approved a three-day holiday on account of Eid ul Adha, which will be celebrated on June 29, according to a statement issued by the Cabinet Division.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/na-body-ends-free-hajj-facility-for-ministers-vips.html\">NA body ends free Hajj facility for ministers, VIPs<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee announced the sighting of the Zil Hajj moon in Pakistan meaning that Eid ul Adha will be celebrated across the country on June 29 (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced after the moon sighting committee met under the chairmanship of Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad.<\/p>\n<p>The testimonies of moon sightings were received from various cities including Karachi, Lahore and others, the Ruet-e-Hilal committee chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, SUPARCO, Department of Meteorology, and Ministry of Science and Technology also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was also announced after taking input from zonal committees of Ruet-e-Hilal that had met in their respective cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after announcing a three-day Eid ul Adha holiday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday also announced a public holiday on the Day of Arafah \u2014 June 28 (Wednesday) \u2014\u00a0Geo News\u00a0reported. &#8220;In supersession of earlier orders of even number dated 20.06.2023, on the above subject, the Prime Minister has been pleased to approve the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[9539,9542],"class_list":["post-17374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-eid-ul-adha","tag-ministry-of-religious-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374","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=17374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}