Daily Times

KARACHI: As Eidul Azha falls on Tuesday (today), the employees of the provincial government, federal as well, will be enjoying the whole week of holidays and the office work is likely to be resumed from 19th.

Though the federal government has announced three holidays from 12-14 on the account of Eidul Azha, the government employees will extend them till 19th and it has become quite a precedent in this regard.

It has been learnt that majority of the employees have taken leaves from their respective offices in order to celebrate Eidul Azha for a whole week.

A visit to various Sindh Secretariat’s offices by this scribe on Friday, the last working day of the past week, disclosed that about 70 percent of the employees had been granted 2-day leave in addition to the official holidays announced by the federal government.

The reason was that the employees could enjoy the Eid with their families in their native towns or villages. Interestingly, the bureaucracy will also not be available in their offices as they would also be in their native towns, a senior official told Daily Times.

He said that mostly clerks, section officers, superintendents, deputy secretaries and 50 percent of the secretaries hail from the interior parts of the province or their families live there. And, the officials usually celebrate such festivities with their loved ones at their villages, the official opined. ‘I have taken 2-day leave from my office to celebrate Eid in Larkana. I will resume my duties from coming Monday,’ said another official of federal government.