{"id":82359,"date":"2025-08-05T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82359"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:20:39","slug":"govt-announces-four-consecutive-holidays-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-announces-four-consecutive-holidays-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces four consecutive holidays this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistani people are going to have four <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/educational-institutions-opened-in-these-provinces-after-summer-holidays\/\">consecutive holidays<\/a> this August as Independence Day and Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) Chehlum are close to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Division in a notification stated that Thursday, August 14, would be a public holiday across the country on the occasion of Independence Day. The Chehlum will be on Friday, August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Though Chehlum has not been included in this year&#8217;s list of official federal holidays, holidays would be declared by provincial governments in big cities, like Karachi and Rawalpindi, were declared last year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Saturday and Sunday following these two days, people will get the unusual four-day break from August 14 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have also been asked to increase security arrangements for both events to facilitate peaceful processions and celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistani people are going to have four consecutive holidays this August as Independence Day and Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) Chehlum are close to the weekend. The Cabinet Division in a notification stated that Thursday, August 14, would be a public holiday across the country on the occasion of Independence Day. The Chehlum will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":48760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7415,30538],"class_list":["post-82359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-public-holiday","tag-holidays-in-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82359","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82361,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82359\/revisions\/82361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}