{"id":45261,"date":"2024-08-16T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45261"},"modified":"2024-08-16T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:21:37","slug":"sindh-announces-public-holiday-across-province-on-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-announces-public-holiday-across-province-on-august-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh announces public holiday across province on August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh government today announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-govt-declares-public-holiday-on-pakistans-independence-day\/\">public holiday<\/a> on August 20 across the province to mark the Urs of Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai.<\/p>\n<p>A notification issued by the Sindh government stated that all offices, autonomous, and semi-autonomous bodies, corporations, and local councils in Sindh will be closed except for essential services on Tuesday (August 20).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government of Sindh declares 14th Safar 1446 (A.H) August 20, 2024 (Tuesday), as a Public Holiday throughout the Province of Sindh on the occasion of Urs of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (R.A),&#8221; the notification added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/559579-sindh-announces-public-holiday-on-august\">\n<p>The urs of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a famous Sufi poet and saint, begins every year on the 14th Safar (the second month of the Hijra calendar) and lasts for three days.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details, the three-day ceremony of the urs will begin with poetry marathons, literature conferences, and other activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh government today announced a public holiday on August 20 across the province to mark the Urs of Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. A notification issued by the Sindh government stated that all offices, autonomous, and semi-autonomous bodies, corporations, and local councils in Sindh will be closed except for essential services on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10032,266],"class_list":["post-45261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-shah-abdul-latif-bhitai","tag-sindh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261","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=45261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45263,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261\/revisions\/45263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}