This refers to the news item ‘Three public holidays in India against 15 in Pakistan’ (October 16). The Indians may have only three national public holidays but they leave us behind when it comes to the various religious and cultural holidays. For example, the website of the Reserve Bank of India (www.rbi.org.in) informs us that its regional office at Nagpur will observe 26 bank holidays during 2011 of which six holidays fall in the single month of April. Incidentally the bank remains closed on Eid-i-Milad, the two Eids and Ashura.
Dr Faiz Ahmad, Islamabad
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