{"id":3205,"date":"2014-08-04T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:47:16","slug":"sri-lanka-based-pakistani-community-celebrated-eid-festival-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka based Pakistani Community Celebrated Eid Festival in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2014\/08\/sri-lanka-based-pakistani-community-celebrated-eid-festival-in-colombo\/kids-enjoying-a-game\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3208\" title=\"Kids enjoying a game\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kids-enjoying-a-game-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistani Community celebrated Chaand Raat in Colombo\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Community based in Sri Lanka celebrated the Eid Festival, at an event organized by the High Commission of Pakistan, last evening at a local hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commission of Pakistan annually organizes Chaand\u00a0Raat\u00a0Mela on the eve of Eid ul Fitar for the Pakistani Community based in Sri Lanka. The event\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">wa<\/span><span style=\"font-family: garamond, serif;\">s attended by a large number of participants representing the cross section of Pakistani community based in the Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The participants exchanges greetings &amp; wished\u00a0Chaand\u00a0Raat\u00a0and\u00a0Eid Mubarak to each others on the sighting of the Shawwal moon. The Women\u00a0and\u00a0girls attending the event decorated their hands with\u00a0mehndi\u00a0(henna),\u00a0and\u00a0<wbr>selected colourful bangals for the eid festival.<\/wbr><\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka HE Maj Gen \u00ae Qasim Qureshi and Mrs Qureshi also graced the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Pakistani Community based in Sri Lanka celebrated the Eid Festival, at an event organized by the High Commission of Pakistan, last evening at a local hotel. The High Commission of Pakistan annually organizes Chaand\u00a0Raat\u00a0Mela on the eve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}