Federal government announces Eid-Ul-Fitr Holidays

Islamabad: The Federal government has announced Eid-ul-Fitr holidays.

 As per the latest notification issued by the officials, all the government as well as private sector offices will remain closed from June 26^th, 2017 to June 28^th, 2017.

This notification of holidays for Eid-ul-Fitr is issued by the Ministry of Interior.

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The government has announced total 3 holidays for the Eid festival.

The issued notification reads that the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays will begin from 26^th June and will end on 28^th June.

All the government and the private sector offices will reopen on June 29^th, 2017 (Thursday).

Because of the weekend just before the Eid holidays, the off-days will be from June 24^th, 2017 and in this way the employees of both public and private sector firms will get total five Eid holidays.

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Mostly schools and the colleges in the country already have summer holidays. The educational institutes are scheduled to reopen on August 15^th, 2017.

On the other hand, the government has also decided to pay out the income and the pension for the month of June in advanced on June 20^th, 2017 on account of Eid-Ul-Fitr to all the government sector employees.