Gazetted Public and Optional Holidays in Pakistan - 2014

Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan has issued notification regarding National Gazetted Holidays and Optional Holidays for the year 2014. As per previous practice, in consultation with Metrological Department Karachi for expected dates of appearance of the moon during the year 2014 and Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony for dates for festivals of minorities, following Public and Optional Holidays for the calendar year 2014 have been prepared.

Public Holidays in Pakistan (the Year 2014)

The details of public holidays in the year 2014 is as under:

Sr. No	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates
1	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul-Awal 1435 AH)	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 AH)	Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)	29th, 30th, 31st July 2014
6	Independence Day	Thursday	14th August 2014
7	Eid-ul-Azha (10th Zil Haj 1435 AH)	Monday and Tuesday	6th and 7th October 2014
8	Iqbal Day	Sunday	9th November 2014
9	Ashura (9th and 10th Moharrum 1435 AH)	Monday and Tuesday	3rd and 4th November 2014
10	Quaid-e-Azam Day/Christmas)	Thursday	25th December 2014
11	Day after Christmas	Friday	26th December 2014 (For Christians only)

Bank Holidays in Pakistan (the Year 2014)

The detail of bank holidays is as under. Following will be bank holidays, however on these dates banks will remain closed for public but not for the bank employees.

Sr. No	Dates	Days
1	1st January 2014	Wednesday
2	1st July 2014	Tuesday
3	30th June 2014 (Corresponding to 1st Ramadan 1435, subject to appearance of the moon)	Monday

Optional Holidays in Pakistan (the Year 2014)

• Government Servants desiring to avail themselves of Optional Holidays shall take prior permission of the Head of the Office concerned and no Government servant shall be granted more than one optional holiday in case of Muslims and three optional holidays in case of Non-Muslims in a calendar year.

• The grant of this concession should not result in any dislocation of work. In the case of Muslims optional holidays, the number of persons permitted to avail optional holidays should be regulated in such a manner so as to leave adequate staff for the proper continuance of work.

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

• 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.

Sr. No	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates
1	New Year Day	Wednesday	1st January 2014
2	Basant Panchami	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	Dussehra	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 the case of Muslim Festivals, the dates of Optional Holidays are based on anticipated dates and are subject to appearance of the moon.