{"id":13498,"date":"2026-05-21T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/taliban-five-day-holiday-eid-al-adha-government-offices\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:34:16","slug":"taliban-five-day-holiday-eid-al-adha-government-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/taliban-five-day-holiday-eid-al-adha-government-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Announces Five-Day Holiday for Eid al-Adha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has announced in a statement that all government offices will be closed from May 26 to May 30 in observance of the Day of Arafah and Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, this five-day consecutive holiday will apply to all government institutions. Officials have stated that employees are expected to return to their duties as usual after the holiday period.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the statement noted that government offices will resume their activities on Sunday, May 31. Eid al-Adha is considered one of the major Islamic holidays, celebrated annually with religious and traditional ceremonies across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Labor announces a five-day government holiday from May 26-30 for Eid al-Adha and the Day of Arafah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}