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Chetri Chandra (Sindhi: چيتي چند, Moon of Chaitra) is a festival that marks the beginning of the Lunar Hindu New Year for Sindhi Hindus. [3] [8] The date of the festival is based on the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, falling on the first day of the year, in the Sindhi month of Chet (). [3]
Some festivals in Punjab, Pakistan are determined by the Punjabi calendar, [4] such as Muharram which is observed twice, once according to the Muslim year and again on the 10th of harh/18th of jeth. [5] The Punjabi calendar is the one the rural (agrarian) population follows in Punjab, Pakistan. [6] [note 1]
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.
Authentic continuously published Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan 35 Wahdat [4] (Pashto: وحدت) Pashto: Peshawar 1983 36 Sajjan (Punjabi: سجن) Punjabi: Lahore 1989 First Punjabi newspaper of Pakistan, started in 1989 by Hussain naqi and defunct in 1990. Started online website again in 2019. 37 Daily Lokaai (Punjabi: لوکائی ...
So much has been said and written about it that it would be superfluous to mention the event again. In Sindh the beginning of the New Year was considered Cheti Chand . Some businessmen open new account books on Cheti Chand; many however, do that on the eve of Diwali. On the full moon, people used to go to a river or lake and offer 'Akho' with a ...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of the Dawn newspaper. Dawn began as a weekly publication, based in New Delhi. [1] Under the instruction of Jinnah, it became the official organ of the All India Muslim League in Delhi, and the sole voice of the Muslims League in the English language, reflecting and espousing the cause of Pakistan's creation.
The Ruet-e-Hilal Committee (Urdu: مرکزی رویتِ ہلال کمیٹی) is the official body in Pakistan responsible for announcing the sighting of the new moon, which determines the Islamic calendar. Currently chaired by Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad, the committee is supported by 150 observatories from the Pakistan Meteorological Department. [1]