Source: Dawn.Com:
It was, perhaps, inevitable given the work ethic that prevails in Pakistan. After initially declaring a three-day holiday period for Eidul Azha, the federal government followed Sindh’s lead and, on Monday, announced that on Friday, too, the country would be taking time out from business as usual, thus extending the break from Tuesday through to next Sunday. As far as the government is concerned, Pakistan has its affairs well in order and there is little work of any pressing nature to do — never mind the fact that so dire is the situation that, as stated in the editorial above, the government is holding multiparty consultations on how to revive it. Were the doors of government opened at the beginning of this week only to announce that it was elongating the break? The element of delight would have been even greater had a few more days been thrown in.