{"id":3691,"date":"2021-11-04T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:43:21","slug":"pm-imran-khan-wishes-hindus-a-happy-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-wishes-hindus-a-happy-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran Khan wishes Hindus a happy Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan extended his wishes to Hindus on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights on Thursday.<br \/>\nPM Imran took to Twitter to congratulate Pakistani Hindus on Diwali, which is one of their most important religious festivals of celebration.<br \/>\n\u201cWishing our Hindu community a happy Diwali,\u201c the premier tweeted.<br \/>\nPakistani Hindus are celebrating Diwali \u2014 also known as Deepavali or the festival of lights \u2014 across the country with zeal and fervour, with families decorating their houses and temples with colourful lights today.<br \/>\nSpecial poojas (worship) will be held in different temples while sweets will also be distributed among people during the observance of the religious festival.<br \/>\nDiwali is celebrated at the end of every autumn to commemorate the victory of Hindu god Lord Rama \u2014 or Ramachandra \u2014 over evil Ravana and how he spent 14 years in tranquillity. Celebrated for five days, it also marks the start of the new year of the Hindu calendar.<br \/>\nPakistani Hindus also lit earthen lamps in the night and fireworks were also be exhibited to celebrate the festival.<br \/>\nApart from Karachi, Lahore, and other major cities, festivities will also be held in Matiari, Tando Allahyar, Tando Muhammad Khan, Jamshoro, Badin, Sanghar, Hala, Tando Adam, and Shahdadpur.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shehbaz-sharif-terms-pm-imran-khan-relief-package-a-bundle-of-lies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shehbaz Sharif terms PM Imran Khan relief package a bundle of lies<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishing all our Hindu community a happy Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1456148770794713089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan extended his wishes to Hindus on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights on Thursday. PM Imran took to Twitter to congratulate Pakistani Hindus on Diwali, which is one of their most important religious festivals of celebration. \u201cWishing our Hindu community a happy Diwali,\u201c the premier tweeted. Pakistani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[2243,546],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-diwali","tag-prime-minister-pm-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}