Public and Optional Holidays, Notification For The Year 2022 Has Been Released By Ministry Of Interior Pakistan

Notification For Public Holidays Of The Year 2023 In Pakistan Has Been Issued By The Ministry Of Interior.  The First Public Holiday Of The Year 2023 In Pakistan Will Be On 23 March (Pakistan Day, Resolution Day ).

Islamabad: The government of  Pakistan has issued a circular about the holidays for the year 2023. The good news for the year 2023 is that no public holiday will be on Sunday.

In 2023, the Kashmir Day 05 February will be on Sunday. The first public holiday will be on 23 March 2023 (Resolution Day) and Thursday will be the day of the week.

Eid-ul-Fitr will be on 21 and 22 April, and Eid-ul-Adha will be on 28,29 June (subject to the appearance of the Moon).

Detail of the public holiday of the year 2023 in Pakistan notified by the Federal Government is given below in table form.

                                                      Public Holiday In The Year 2023

First Ramdhan (Roza) is expected on Wednesday, 22 March. 

Bank Holiday

On January 1, 2023, the first Ramadan, July 1 and January 1, 2024, will be bank holidays.

On December 26, one day after Christmas, there was a holiday for the Christian community only

 

In 2022, the first public holiday was on Kashmir Day on 05 February 2022 and Wednesday was the day of the week.

Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated on May 03, and Eid-ul-Adha on July 11.

Detail of the public holiday of the year 2022 in Pakistan notified by the Federal Government is given below in table form.

* Subject to the appearance of the Moon.

On December 26, one day after Christmas, there was a holiday for the Christian community only. January 1, 2023, April 01, Ramadan, and July 1, 2022, will be bank holidays.

Following is the Public and Optional Holidays 2022 Notification No. F.No. 10-1/2021-Min-II Dated 17th December 2021 For Federal Government Employees Pakistan

The list of Optional Holidays in 2022, Pakistan is shown below.

According to the notification, there will be a total of 15 public holidays in the year 2022, however, the disappointing news for the citizens is that six 6 out of fifteen 15 public holidays will be on Sundays.
In addition, government employees will enjoy twenty-20 optional holidays (casual leaves i.e; CL) during the year 2022.

Public holidays will be on Pakistan Day on 23rd March 2022, on the occasion of Labor Day on 1st May 2022, the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr 1st Shawwal 1443 AH on 01st, 02nd, and 03rd May 2022 (subject to the appearance of the Moon), on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha 10 Zul-Hijjah 1443 AH on 11th, 12th and 13th July (subject to the appearance of the Moon),  Independence Day 14th August will be on Sunday, Ashura Muharram 9th, 10th August (subject to the appearance of the Moon), Eid Milad-un-Nabi on 12th Rabi-ul-Awal on 12th October (subject to the appearance of the Moon), Quaid-e-Azam Day and Christmas on 25th December on Sunday.

On December 26, one day after Christmas, there will be a holiday for the Christian community only. January 1, 2022, April 01, Ramadan, and July 1, 2022, will be bank holidays.

According to the Circular of the Ministry of Interior, Cabinet Divison, Pakistani may enjoy fourteen 15 public holidays and twenty 28 optional holidays in calendar 2022.

The first and last day of 2022 will be Saturday.

The list of Public Holidays in 2021, Pakistan is shown below.

The list of Optional Holidays in 2021, Pakistan is shown below.

The optional holidays are denominational and the head of the office may use his/her discretional power to exercise it, so working of office not suffered.

For the government servants who want to avail optional holidays, it is compulsory that they take prior permission from the head of the office. In one calendar year, only one optional holiday may be availed.