{"id":30205,"date":"2024-03-21T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=30205"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:49:18","slug":"nowruz-festival-celebrated-with-simplicity-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/nowruz-festival-celebrated-with-simplicity-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowruz festival celebrated with simplicity in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the globe, the Persian New Year, Nowruz was celebrated on Wednesday to mark the beginning of the Iranian calendar in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Nowruz is a spring festival and New Year celebration named after the Persian word meaning \u201cnew day.\u201d It is celebrated all over Asia with a variety of local traditions. The Parsi community in Iran, Afghanistan, the Central Asian states, and parts of Pakistan is celebrating the formal advent of the Spring season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-railways-to-run-four-special-trains-on-eid-ul-fitr\/\">Pakistan Railways to run four special trains on Eid-ul-Fitr<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students, professionals, and families from Gilgit-Baltistan celebrated the Persian New Year Nowruz in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi with simplicity due to the Holy Month of Ramazan. People prayed for a prosperous year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Nowruz was added to UNESCO\u2019s list of intangible cultural heritage in 2009, while the United Nations through its resolution number 64\/253 officially recognized 21st March as International Nowruz Day in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the globe, the Persian New Year, Nowruz was celebrated on Wednesday to mark the beginning of the Iranian calendar in Pakistan. Nowruz is a spring festival and New Year celebration named after the Persian word meaning \u201cnew day.\u201d It is celebrated all over Asia with a variety of local traditions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[13634,13635,13636],"class_list":["post-30205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-nowruz-celeberted-in-pakistan","tag-nowruz-festival","tag-nowruz-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}