Half-day holiday
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Friday march 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Residents are advised to prepare for potentially heavy rainfall. in Karachi
Regional holiday
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Saturday march 2, 2024
Secular holiday : To mark the annual urs celebrations of Hazrat Shah Hussain, popularly known as Madhu Lal Hussain. in Lahore only
Optional holiday
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Tuesday march 5, 2024
Hinduism : All Hindu employees of all autonomous, semi-autonomous, and government organizations that fall under the adminisare given holidays on the occasion of Holi.
Pakistan Expo Asia International Exhibition
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Thursday march 7, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.engineeringasia.net/ lasts 3 days - in Karachi 2024 edition confirmed
Optional holiday
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Saturday march 9, 2024
Hinduism : Maha Shivaratri Hindu community
Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Punjab
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Monday march 11, 2024
School holidays :
Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday march 11, 2024
cards/flowers :
Banks are closed
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Tuesday march 12, 2024
Banks only :
Regional holiday
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Wednesday march 20, 2024
Secular holiday : Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi's day: a spiritual leader of the Hur Freedom Movement during Pakistan's freedom struggle against British colonialists. Sindh state only [Wikipedia]
Regional holiday
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Thursday march 21, 2024
Secular holiday : In view of the 23rd March, Pakistan Day Parade in Rawalpindi
Regional holiday
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Friday march 22, 2024
Secular holiday : In view of the 23rd March, Pakistan Day Parade in Rawalpindi
Pakistan Resolution Day
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Saturday march 23, 2024
Secular holiday : On 23rd of March, 1940, at the Muslim League's 27th session, under Quaid-e-Azam's leadership, Mr. A.K. Fazlul Haq moved a resolution and demanded a separate sovereign state for the Muslims in the North West and Eastern zones of the Indian Sub-continent. Actual name of celebration is RESOLUTION DAY.
Mid-term holiday (end) - Punjab
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Monday march 25, 2024
School holidays :
Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima
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Monday march 25, 2024
Culture : From 2019 onwards
Optional holiday
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Monday march 25, 2024
Hinduism : Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima Hindu community
Spring holiday (beginning) - Sindh
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Friday march 29, 2024
School holidays :
Optional holiday
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Friday march 29, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Good Friday Christian community
Hazrat Madhu Lal Hussain Death Anniversary (Lahore only)
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Saturday march 30, 2024
Culture : Hussain was a disciple of Sheikh Bahlol Daryai Chinioti. Following his masters advice, he studied mysticism and spent 12 years in penance at the shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh. Like all Sufis, he was a nonconformist and did not believe in ritualism but direct communion with the Almighty. He even shaved off his beard and moustache. Hussains love for a Brahmin boy called Madhu or Madhu Lal is famous, and they are often referred together as Madhu Lal Hussain. Madhus tomb lies next to Hussains in the shrine.
Easter
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Sunday march 31, 2024
cards/flowers : From 2019 onwards
Senatorial election
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Wednesday april 3, 2024
Special Events :
Regional holiday
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Thursday april 4, 2024
Secular holiday : To mark the death anniversary of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Karachi and Lahore only
Ramadan holiday (beginning)
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Saturday april 6, 2024
School holidays :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday april 10, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday april 11, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday april 12, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Ramadan holiday (end)
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Monday april 22, 2024
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Thursday april 25, 2024
Muslim, Sufi : Ascension of Muhammad in Karachi
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Summer holiday (beginning) - Sindh
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Friday may 31, 2024
School holidays :
Summer holiday (beginning) - Punjab
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Friday june 7, 2024
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
cards/flowers :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday june 17, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Tuesday june 18, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday june 19, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Banks are closed
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Monday july 1, 2024
Banks only :
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday july 8, 2024
cards/flowers :
Ashura
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Tuesday july 16, 2024
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Ashura
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Wednesday july 17, 2024
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Beginning of school year - Sindh
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Thursday august 1, 2024
School holidays : New schedule in 2024
Summer holiday (end) - Sindh
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Thursday august 1, 2024
School holidays : New schedule in 2024
Summer holiday (end) - Punjab
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Tuesday august 13, 2024
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Wednesday august 14, 2024
Secular holiday : Pakistan was formed on August 14, 1947 with two parts in the eastern and northwestern regions of South Asia, separated by Hindu-majority India. [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia]
Arbor Day
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Sunday august 18, 2024
Culture :
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday september 16, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :