Federal Government announced Public And Optional Holidays For The Year 2019-Notification

Islamabad, the 1^st February, 2019

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Subject:                       PUBLIC AND OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR, 2019

The Public and Optional holidays regarding festivals of Muslims and Minorities for the Calendar Year 2019 would be as under:

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during year 2019
1	Kashmir Day	Tuesday	5th February, 2019
2	Pakistan Day	Saturday	23rd March 2019
3	Labour Day (1st May)	Wednesday	1st May, 2019
4	Eid—ul-Fitr, (1st Shawal 1440 AH)	Wednesday, Thursday & Friday	5th ,6th & 7th June, 2019
5	Eid-ul-Azha, (10th Zilhaj 1440 AH)	Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday	12th, 13th & 14th August, 2019
6	Independence Day (14th August)	Wednesday	14th August, 2019
7	Ashura (9th & 10th Muharram 1440 AH)	Monday &Tuesday	9th & 10th September, 2019
8	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul-Awal 1440 AH)	Monday	11 November, 2019
9	Quaid-e-Azam Day	Wednesday	25th December, 2019
10	Christmas	Wednesday	25th December, 2019
11	Day after Christmas	Thursday	26th December, 2019 (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:

Sr. No.	Day/ Date
1	Tuesday , January 1, 2019
2	Wednesday, May 7, 2019 (Corresponding to 1st Ramazan 1440 AH (subject to appearance of moon)
3	Monday,  July 1, 2019

OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during the year 2020
1	New Year Day	Tuesday	1st January, 2019
2	Basant Punchami	Wednesday	9th February, 2019
3	Shiv Ratri	Monday	4th March, 2019
4	Holi	Tuesday	21st March, 2019
5	Dulhandi	Tuesday	21st March, 2019
6	Shab-e-Meraj (27 Rajab 1440 A.H)	Thursday	4th April, 2019
7	Baisakhi Festival	Sunday	14th April, 2019
8	Good Friday	Friday	19th April, 2019
9	Eid-e-Rizwan (Bahai’s Community only)	Sunday	21st April, 2019
10	Shab-e-Barat (15 Shaban 1440 A.H)	Sunday	21st April, 2019
11	Easter	Sunday	21st April 2019
12	Day After Easter	Monday	22nd April, 2019
13	Buddha Purnima	Saturday	18th May, 2019
14	Nauroze (Parsi’s New Year Day)	Saturday	17th August, 2019
15	Birthday of Lord Zoroaster (Khordad Sal)	Thursday	22nd August, 2019
16	Krishna Janam Ashtami	Saturday	24th August 2019
17	Durga Puja	Sunday	6th October, 2019
18	Dussehra	Tuesday	8th October, 2019
19	Birthday Guru Valmik Sawami Jee	Sunday	13th October, 2019
20	Diwali	Sunday	27th October, 2019
21	Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev jee	Tuesday	12th November, 2019
22	Chelum (20 Safar 1440 A.H)	Sunday	20th November, 2019
23	Giyarvhee Sharief (11 Rabi-us-Sani 1440A.H)	Monday	9th December, 2019

Note:

In case of Muslim Festivals the dates of Holidays are based on anticipated dates and are subject to appearance of Moon for which a separate Notification will be issued by Ministry of Interior.

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-2019.

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 that work is not suffered.

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 she/he is entitled.

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