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Festival; 23-26: February: Pakistan Flower Show: Flower Show at Karachi: February–March: Jashn-e-Baharaan: The celebrations with the start of Spring season 23: March: Pakistan Day: Republic Day and to commemorate the Lahore Resolution: 28: May: Youm-e-Takbir: Celebrated in commemoration of the first Nuclear test 14: August: Independence Day
Pakistan holidays are celebrated according to the Islamic or local Pakistani calendars for religious and civil purposes, respectively. Religious holidays such as Eid are celebrated according to the Islamic calendar whereas other national holidays such as Labour Day, [1] Pakistan Day, Independence Day, and Quaid-e-Azam Day are celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar.
The festival is observed in the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar called Rabi'al-Awal. [9] Various processions take place in Lahore to celebrate the festival. [ 10 ] According to Nestorovic (2016), hundreds of thousands of people gather at Minare-Pakistan, Lahore, between the intervening night of 11th and 12th Rabi' al-awwal of the ...
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It takes place at the shrine of Shah Hussain in Baghbanpura, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, adjacent to the Shalamar Gardens. The festival used to take place in the Shalimar Gardens also, until President Ayub Khan ordered against it in 1958. [4] This festival used to be the largest festival in the Punjab, but now comes second to Basant.
18 March – 2024 Pakistan-Afghanistan skirmishes: In response to the attacks in North Waziristan on 16 March, Pakistan retaliates by air striking alleged TTP hideouts inside Afghanistan. [25] The Taliban government claims that the air strikes by Pakistan kill eight civilians. [ 26 ]
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