Pakistan Public Holidays 2024 - Public Holidays Announces

Here is the list of upcoming holidays of festivals to both Muslim and Minorities across the nation;

These are the upcoming holidays in Pakistan among these Kashmir Day on Februrary 5, Pakistan Day on March 23 and Independence Day on August 14 stand out the historical and ideological underpinning of our nation Pakistan. Public holidays are national holidays for the peoples to enjoy the days with family and friends. Optional holidays are for the communities to celebrate their religious and cultural events. Bank holidays may include the banking employees holiday and bank are closed for any public dealing on this holiday.

Shab-e-Meraj Holiday

Shab-e-Meraj is an optional holiday for the Muslim religious peoples and is celebrated on the 27th day of the month of Rajab which is the seventh month in the Islamic calendar. This day marks the night that Allah took Muhammad on a night journey this night is also known as Lailat-al-Miraj in the Arabic world. In Pakistan Muslims observe Shab-e-Baraat with great tradition and spend the night in prayer, reciting the Quran and seeking forgiveness from Allah and this event is celebrated in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Turkey among the Muslims.

Ramadan Holidays

In Pakistan Ramadan holidays is a one-month period of prayer, reflection and fasting for Muslims and is celebrated in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman in the worldwide among Muslims and they wait for whole year for this one month and during this time period number of Muslims do Umrah and the start and end dates of Ramadan depend on the sighting of the Crescent Moon that can be vary by country and region and this is the religious public holidays in Pakistan for celebrating their cultural and spiritual events.

Eid al-Fitr Holidays

At the end of Ramadan holy month of Muslims they celebrate the first three days of Shawwal this is Eid al-Fitr days in which Muslims do their prayer service and greet one another wear new clothes visit the grave of their beloved one and give presents to the children these days included in the official holidays celebrated in Islam. This is the feast of breaking the fast which Muslims do in the holy month Ramadan to recall the revealing of the Quran to Prophet Muhammad and on Eid al-Fitr day everyone spread happiness to each other visited their relatives and children on this day enjoy in their own way.

Eid al-Adha Holidays

Eid al-Adha is the greater Eid among Muslims which memorize the Qurbani of Prophet Ibrahim devotion to Allah and this greater Eid holidays is the religious holidays in the worldwide among Muslims celebrated in Islam and it may follow the completion of annual Hajj pilgrimage at the time of Qurbani (sacrifice) first Muslims follow the Eid prayer in the morning and after that the act of Qurbani consists of slaughtering an animal as a sacrifice in memorizing of Prophet Ibrahim sacrifice for Allah.