Editing Punjab, Pakistan (section)

=== Fairs and festivals ===
{{Main|Punjabi festivals (Pakistan)}}The [[Islamic holidays|Islamic festivals]] are typically observed.<ref name="Official Holidays 2016">[http://www.schools.punjab.gov.pk/system/files/Notification_2.pdf Official Holidays 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517025526/http://www.schools.punjab.gov.pk/system/files/Notification_2.pdf |date=17 May 2017 }}, Government of Punjab – Pakistan (2016)</ref><ref name="kmc.gos.pk">[http://www.kmc.gos.pk/Contents.aspx?id=48 Official Holidays 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901090935/http://kmc.gos.pk/Contents.aspx?id=48|date=1 September 2018}}, Karachi Metropolitan, Sindh, Pakistan</ref> Non-Islamic festivals include [[Lohri]], [[Basant (festival)|Basant]] and [[Vaisakhi]], which are usually celebrated as seasonal festivals.<ref name="autogenerated5">[https://books.google.com/books?id=1O0eAQAAMAAJ&q=makara Census of India, 1961: Punjab. Manage of Publications]</ref> The Islamic festivals are set according to the lunar [[Islamic calendar]] (Hijri), and the date falls earlier by 10 to 13 days from year to year.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jacqueline Suthren Hirst |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBOpAgAAQBAJ |title=Religious Traditions in Modern South Asia |author2=John Zavos |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-136-62668-5 |page=274}}; [https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/india/eid-ul-fitar Eid ul-Fitar], Ramzan Id/Eid-ul-Fitar in India, Festival Dates</ref>

Some Islamic clerics and some politicians have attempted to ban the participation of non-Islamic festivals because of the religious basis,<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/1315376 The ban on fun], IRFAN HUSAIN, Dawn, 18 February 2017</ref> and they being declared [[haram]] (forbidden in Islam).<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/columns/the-barricaded-muslim-mind/286436.html The barricaded Muslim mind] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404023014/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/columns/the-barricaded-muslim-mind/286436.html |date=4 April 2023 }}, Saba Naqvi (28 August 2016), Quote: "Earlier, Muslim villagers would participate in Hindu festivals; now they think that would be haraam, so stay away. Visiting dargahs is also haraam"</ref>