✦ zenith calendar · the pakistan almanac
the national days and the islamic days off, in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own words.
pakistan is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds pakistan's public holidays as the government lists them each year. the islamic days are announced as anticipated and then set by a later notification once the moon is seen; the dates here are the notified days off.
its dates are copied from the published list, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian and hijri · the islamic days as notified once the moon is seen
youm-e-iqbal
9 november
the birthday of allama muhammad iqbal, the poet of the east, who first dreamed of pakistan.
guards change at his tomb beside the badshahi mosque in lahore, and people come to lay flowers and pray. schools, colleges and societies hold readings of his poetry, speeches and seminars on his thought.
25 december
the birthday of quaid-e-azam muhammad ali jinnah, the great leader and founder of pakistan, who gave the nation its motto: unity, faith, discipline.
guards change at the mazar-e-quaid, his mausoleum in karachi, where leaders and citizens lay wreaths and offer fateha. schools and institutions hold programmes on his life.
youm-e-azadi
14 august
the birthday of pakistan, which became a free country on 14 august 1947.
the day opens with a gun salute in islamabad and the provincial capitals, and the flag is raised and the anthem sung. homes and streets are hung with green and white flags and lights, minar-e-pakistan is lit, and people gather for fireworks, songs and prayers for the country.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, pakistan puts its days on their dates on that ring, in lilac. its mark is its flag, 🇵🇰.
each holiday carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition or the country itself tells it, and how it is kept.
on a new install, your phone's own country starts switched on. if your phone's language setting names pakistan as its region, pakistan starts lit; anywhere else it waits in the archive, whole.
pakistan arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it from its chip. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
pakistan shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
pakistan is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
pakistan is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
pakistan (public holidays) ·
Allama Iqbal Day, youm-e-iqbal, falls on 9 November 2026, the poet's birthday. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the pakistan almanac.
Quaid-e-Azam Day is 25 December, the birthday of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Pakistan's Independence Day, youm-e-azadi, is 14 August, the day Pakistan became a free country in 1947.
Pakistan announces its Islamic days as anticipated and then sets them by notification once the moon is seen. The pakistan almanac carries the notified days off.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called pakistan: the public holidays as the government lists them, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Pakistan holds the country's public holidays, the notified days off. Sunni and shia hold each community's days of the Hijri year from their own published calendars. They are separate almanacs, so you light the ones you keep.
On a new install, the first page asks which almanacs start lit. If your phone's language setting names Pakistan as its region, the pakistan almanac starts switched on; otherwise it waits in the archive until you light it.
They are copied from the government's published list of the year's holidays and its later notifications, not worked out on your phone.