{"id":56763,"date":"2024-11-21T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56763"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:25:48","slug":"fact-check-punjab-govt-declares-holiday-in-lahore-on-khadim-rizvis-urs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/fact-check-punjab-govt-declares-holiday-in-lahore-on-khadim-rizvis-urs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Punjab govt declares holiday in Lahore on Khadim Rizvi&#8217;s Urs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The claim of a public holiday in Lahore in the wake of the third Urs of late Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi on November 21 (today) is false.<\/p>\n<p>A graphic circulating on social media platforms claimed that the Punjab government announced a public holiday on Thursday to commemorate the death anniversary of the far-right TLP founder.<\/p>\n<p>The post referring to a private news channel claimed that November 21 will be observed as a holiday to honor Khadim Hussain Rizvi\u2019s death anniversary.<\/p>\n<h2>Fact check<\/h2>\n<p>As the rumor spread online, the provincial government denied the authenticity of the claim, adding that no such holiday had been declared.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Lahore Traffic Police issued a traffic plan for areas surrounding Madrassa Rahmatullil Alameen.<\/p>\n<p>Samanabad Chowk towards Yateem Khana Chowk, Shah Fareed Chowk towards Sabza Zar Chowk, City Adda\/Rehber Adda, Rahim Store, and Bijli Ghar Chowk towards Yateem Khana will remain closed for traffic on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic diversions will be in place in areas including Chowk Yateem Khana, Bund Road, and Multan Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The claim of a public holiday in Lahore in the wake of the third Urs of late Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi on November 21 (today) is false. A graphic circulating on social media platforms claimed that the Punjab government announced a public holiday on Thursday to commemorate the death anniversary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13228,24168],"class_list":["post-56763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-khadim-hussain-rizvi","tag-lahore-holdiay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763","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=56763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56766,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56763\/revisions\/56766"}],"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=56763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}