{"id":1161,"date":"2026-06-13T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:44:30","slug":"lahore-high-court-withdraws-friday-saturday-holiday-notification-courts-to-operate-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Lahore High Court Withdraws Friday-Saturday Holiday Notification; Courts to Operate as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lahore High Court (LHC) has withdrawn the notification that had declared Friday and Saturday as weekly holidays. Following this decision, the High Court and district courts will continue to function on both days according to the regular schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new notification was issued by Registrar Raja Qamar Zaman after receiving approval from the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court. According to judicial sources, hearings in all courts will now be conducted under the previous routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The notification also states that court staff assigned to judicial offices will continue performing their duties on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth noting that a notification announcing Friday and Saturday holidays had been issued on March 11 under a national austerity policy. However, that notification has now been formally withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lahore High Court (LHC) has withdrawn the notification that had declared Friday and Saturday as weekly holidays. Following this decision, the High Court and district courts will continue to function on both days according to the regular schedule. A new notification was issued by Registrar Raja Qamar Zaman after receiving approval from the Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluntline.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}