Federal Government announced Public And Optional Holidays For The Year 2014-Notification

Islamabad, the 9^th January, 2014

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Subject:      PUBLIC AND OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR, 2014

As per previous practice, in consultation with Metrological Department Karachi for expected dates of appearance of moon during the year 2014 and Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony for dates of festivals of minorities, following public and optional holidays for the calendar year 2014 have been prepared:

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during year 2014
1	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul-Awal 1435 A.H)	Tuesday	14th January 2014
2	Kashmir Day	Wednesday	5th February 2014
3	Pakistan Day	Sunday	23rd March 2014
4	Labour Day	Thursday	1st May 2014
5	Eid-ul-Fitr (1st Shawal 1435 A.H)	Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)	29th, 30th, 31st July 2014
6	Independence Day	Thursday	14th August 2014
7	Eid-ul-Azha (10th Zil Haj 1435 AH)	Monday & Tuesday	6th & 7th October 2014
8	Iqbal Day	Sunday	9th November 2014
9	Ashura (9th & 10th Moharrum 1435 AH)	Monday & Tuesday	3rd & 4th November 2014
10	Quaid-e-Azam Day/Christmas)	Thursday	25th December 2014
11	Day after Christmas	Friday	26th December 2014 (For Christians only)

 2.        The following will be Bank Holidays. However, on these days the Banks / DFIs /MFBs will remain closed for public but NOT for their employees:

• 1^st January 2014 (Wednesday)
• 1^st July 2014 (Tuesday)
• 30^th June 2014 (Monday) corresponding to 1^st Ramazan 1435 A.H (Subject to the appearance of moon).

Note:

Holidays for Muslims Festivals are subject to appearance of moon for which a separate Notification will be issued.

OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during the year 2014
1	New Year Day	Wednesday	1st January 2014
2	Basant Punchami	Tuesday	4th February 2014
3	Giarhwin Sharief (11 Rab-us-Sani 1435 AH)	Tuesday	11th February 2014
4	Shivaratri	Thursday	27th February 2014
5	Holi	Sunday	16th March 2014
6	Dulhandi	Monday	17th March 2014
7	Baisakhi	Monday	14th April 2014
8	Good Friday	Friday	18th April 2014
9	Easter/Day After Easter	Sunday/Monday	20th & 21st April 2014
10	Eid-e-Rizwan (Bahai’s Community Only)	Monday	21st April 2014
11	Buddha Purnima	Wednesday	14th May 2014
12	Shab-e-Meraj (27th Rajab 1435 AH)	Tuesday	27th May 2014
13	Shab-e-Barat (15th Shaban 1435 AH)	Saturday	14th June 2014
14	Janam Ashtami	Sunday	17th August 2014
15	Nouroze (parsi’s New Year Day)	Monday	18th August 2014
16	Birthday of Lord Zoroaster (Khordad Sal)	Tuesday	23rd August 2014
17	Durga Pooja	Thursday	25th September 2014
18	Dusehra	Friday	3rd October 2014
19	Birthday of Guru Valmik Swami Ji	Wednesday	8th October 2014
20	Diwali	Thursday	23rd October 2014
21	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	Thursday	6th November 2014
22	Chehlum (20th Safar 1435 AH)	Saturday	13th December 2014

Note:

• In case of Muslim Festivals the dates of Holidays are based on anticipated dates and are subject to appearance of Moon.

3.         Government Servants desiring to avail themselves of Optional Holidays shall take prior permission of the Head of office concerned and no Government Servant shall be granted more than one Optional Holiday in the case of Muslims and three Optional Holidays for Non-Muslims in a Calendar Year.

4.         The grant of this concession should not result in any dislocation of work. In the case of Muslim Optional Holidays, the number of persons permitted to avail Optional Holidays should be regulated in a manner so as to adequate staff is available for proper continuance of the work.

5. The Optional Holidays are denominational and may be allowed at the discretion of the Head of Office, provided the state of work permits.

6. A Government Servant should not ordinarily be refused an Optional Holiday that is of religious significance to him and the refusal is likely to decrease the number of such holidays to which he is entitled.

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