Sources: The Daily Times (Islamabad) and Pakistan public holidays. Following the assassination of Prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, on Thursday night, a 3-day national mourning period was declared in Pakistan, for the period of December 28-30, inclusively.In principle this period of mourning was not to be treated as a general public holiday, the government having only decided to close all educational and financial institutions. However there are numerous reports that an unannounced holiday was observed in all the government offices in the federal capital on Friday, while attendance in the offices remained light due to demonstrations.
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