Yes, Pakistan has normally 5 working days from Monday to Friday. Friday is usually a half working day. Saturdays and Sundays are usually weekends.

And then Pakistan became independent in 1947. Now Pakistan’s holiday was Sunday, after which in 1977 General Zia-ul-Haq changed it to Friday, but later in 1997 when Nawaz Sharif became the Prime Minister. So they ended the holiday on Friday and made Sunday a holiday and made Friday a half-holiday.

In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. A weekday or workday is any day of the working week.

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We should observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday), from even to even, as the Sabbath of the Lord our God. Evening is at sunset when day ends and another day begins. No other day has ever been sanctified as the day of rest. The Sabbath Day begins at sundown on Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday.

The first day of the week (for most), Sunday has been set aside as the “day of the sun” since ancient Egyptian times in honor of the sun-god, beginning with Ra. The Egyptians passed their idea of a 7-day week onto the Romans, who also started their week with the Sun’s day, dies solis.

Sunday was traditionally regarded as the first day of the week by both Christians and Jews. Following Jewish tradition, the Bible is quite explicit that God rested on the seventh day of Creation, which formed the basis for the Sabbath, the day of rest.

Technically, Sunday is the first day of the week because it always has been. However, this is based on the concept that the seventh day is a day of rest and the original sabbath in the Judaeo Christian system was Saturday, ie. the end of the week.

The international standard ISO 8601 for representation of dates and times, states that Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.

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“For the Jews who write the Bible, Sabbath was celebrated on Saturday meaning Sunday was the beginning of the week,” he said. The United States, Canada, most of South America, China, Japan and the Philippines officially consider Sunday to start the week ahead.

The reason they adopted the number seven was that they observed seven celestial bodies — the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The Babylonians divided their lunar months into seven-day weeks, with the final day of the week holding particular religious significance.

According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week. It is followed by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday is the 7th and last day of the week.

The Muslim world observes the weekend on different days in different countries: Somalia and Yemen observe the weekend on Thursday and Friday; Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iran, and Palestine observe the weekend on Friday; Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan.

No, Friday is generally considered a weekday. Saturday and Sunday are the weekend. About the only exception is if Friday is a holiday, in which case it would be part of a ‘long’ weekend.

Microsoft Japan’s 2019 three-day weekend trial led to 40% productivity gains and other increased efficiencies, such as 23% electricity savings.

The Qur’an invokes the importance of Friday as a sacred day of worship in a chapter called “Al-Jumah,” meaning the day of congregation, which is also the word for Friday in Arabic. Muslims believe Friday was chosen by God as a dedicated day of worship.

According to the Baltimore Catechism – the standard US Catholic school text from 1885 to the 1960s, Good Friday is good because Christ “showed His great love for man, and purchased for him every blessing”. It notes that the day was called Long Friday by the Anglo-Saxons and is referred to as such in modern Danish.

The three religions all have a holy day of the week reserved for prayer and rest. The Christian holy day is Sunday, and the Islamic holy day Friday.