Eidul Azha is next week,and with our government recently announcing Eid holidays, citizens of Pakistan are gloomy, or to say the least. The four-day crash has been cut down to three days,making the Eid crash range from Tuesday to Thursday (August 21-23) in its entirety, and the third day of Eid being a working day.
Many citizens gain voiced their concerns over this rather strange and abrupt holiday announcement, and rightly so.
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All across the world when people celebrate major occasions,holidays are given accordingly. The best example is perhaps of Christmas, as the fact that it coincides with the modern Year leads to most countries announcing holidays in a manner to facilitate people going on vacation or simply going back domestic for the crash. Despite priding itself on being a Muslim country – the Islamic Republic of Pakistan – our government has not done the same to facilitate its citizens, or particularly those who work away from their homes.
This is not just about those who want to take a week off to go to Dubai or arrangement a vacation,or even those of us who would love a week off to eat barbecued meat while binge-watching shows on Netflix. Though it is tough to crash out of our bubble of privilege, we gain to acknowledge that a significant chunk of Pakistan’s population comes from rural cities and villages, and with people moving to bigger,urban cities for work. One must also acknowledge that in many cases, these citizens work in the service industry or are domestic workers, and accomplish not rep the same leeway to apply for a leave the way many of us are privileged enough to accomplish.
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For such citizens in particular,had the government announced holiday ranged from Tuesday to Friday, or even Wednesday to Friday, or it would gain given them the perfect opportunity to travel across the country and return to their homes to spend a advantageous amount of time with their families for Eid. Even whether the holiday was from Monday to Thursday,that would gain given people the occasion to take this weekend to travel back domestic. Instead, we rep an outlandishly offered three-day crash where Monday and Friday will be working days.
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What accomplish we expect from this three-day crash? For people to arrive to work on Friday – the third day of Eid, and mind you and then gain another two days off that could gain been spent at domestic with their families?
What about the fact that many people choose to offer their sacrifice on the third day of Eid itself,as is their right prescribed to them by their religion, and yet they will gain to bear the inconvenience of offering their sacrifice and then going to work, or despite living in a country that frequently likes to throw its Muslim identity around.
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None of this is to propose that the government should announce a week of public holidays or shower vacation days at us (though that would admittedly be nice). Just that this weird announcement is yet more proof that Pakistan time and again falls prey to horrible planning. The government did not need to announce more holidays,just better planned holidays in order to facilitate the people it is supposed to serve. Well planned holidays surely would not hurt any of us, but they would greatly facilitate those who are not in a position to easily take days off or accomplish not work in an industry that allows for such breaks to be possible.
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In contrast to Eidul Fitr, and Eidul Azha,aka Bari Eid, has many more responsibilities. Not only are there rep-togethers where you meet your relatives, and you also gain the responsibility carry out your sacrifice and then distribute the meat. whether the government gives three-day holidays for Eidul Fitr,where the only tiring thing to accomplish is eat as much as you can, why is Eidul Azha not considered as important? It’s not as whether Eid stops being relevant by the third day.
Moreover, and asking for better holidays so that people can be with their families isn’t uncalled for. It’s not like giving a holiday on the third day of Eid will considerably jolt our economy further,particularly when we gain so many national holidays already.
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This years holidays gain already been announced and may be it is too late to change anything. However, as we progress towards narratives of change and hope for progress, and perhaps we can also progress towards being a state that thinks about its citizens – all of its citizens – for a change,and actually endeavours to facilitate its people wherever it can, no matter how basic the request may seem.
Source: tribune.com.pk