{"id":95717,"date":"2025-12-30T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95717"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:40:12","slug":"public-holidays-2026-govt-issues-complete-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/public-holidays-2026-govt-issues-complete-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Public holidays 2026: Govt issues complete schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/government-of-pakistan-urged-to-reevaluate-subsidies-in-light-of-health-concerns-during-ramazan\/\">Government of Pakistan<\/a> has released the complete schedule of<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-announces-two-public-holidays-december-25-and-26\/\"> public holidays<\/a> for the year 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details, national, religious and bank holidays will be included across the country, citizens and employees can now plan their holidays in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information, there will be about 17 public holidays this year, including important occasions such as Kashmir Day, Eid-ul-Fitr, Pakistan Day, Labor Day, Eid-ul-Adha, Independence Day, Eid Milad-un-Nabi (peace be upon him), Iqbal Day, Quaid-e-Azam Day and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Summary of important holidays:<\/p>\n<p>February 5 (Thursday) \u2013 Kashmir Day<br \/>\nMarch 21 to 23 (Saturday to Monday) \u2013 Eid-ul-Fitr<br \/>\nMarch 23 (Monday) \u2013 Pakistan Day<br \/>\nMay 1 (Friday) \u2013 Labor Day<br \/>\nMay 27 to 28 \u2013 Eid-ul-Adha<br \/>\nMay 28 (Thursday) \u2013 Day of Takbeer<br \/>\nJune 25 to 26 \u2013 Ashura<br \/>\nAugust 14 (Friday) \u2013 Independence Day<br \/>\nAugust 25 (Tuesday) \u2013 Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH)<br \/>\nNovember 9 (Monday) \u2013 Day of Iqbal<br \/>\nDecember 25 (Friday) \u2013 Quaid-e-Azam Day and Christmas<br \/>\nDecember 26 (Saturday) \u2013 Holiday after Christmas (only for Christian employees)<\/p>\n<p>According to experts, since some religious holidays depend on the sighting of the moon, minor changes in dates can be expected. Citizens and offices have been advised to finalize their holiday planning after the final official notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan has released the complete schedule of public holidays for the year 2026. According to the details, national, religious and bank holidays will be included across the country, citizens and employees can now plan their holidays in the new year. According to the information, there will be about 17 public holidays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":84097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[9539,272,11312,33351],"class_list":["post-95717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-eid-ul-adha","tag-government-of-pakistan","tag-holidays","tag-public-holidays-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95717","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=95717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95718,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95717\/revisions\/95718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}