{"id":23212,"date":"2021-11-05T20:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=23212"},"modified":"2021-11-05T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:23:57","slug":"the-five-day-festival-of-lights-begins-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/23212","title":{"rendered":"The five-day festival of lights begins across the globe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk,<\/p>\n<p>Hindus across the world and especially in Pakistan were celebrating the festival of lights called Diwali. The five-day festival of lights is typically celebrated by socializing, exchanging gifts and lighting oil lamps or candles to symbolize the victory of light over darkness. Many of celebrities and politicians took to social media to wish a happy Diwali to Hindu community for celebrating the joyous occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan posted Diwali greetings on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishing all our Hindu community a happy Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1456148770794713089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While, Sindh Chief Minister house spokesperson Murtaza Solangi posted greetings on his twitter account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sindh has the largest number of Hindu population in Pakistan with areas where Hindus are in overwhelming majority. One can only be sad at the state of affairs if the staff at the CM House Sindh doesn\u2019t know the difference between Diwali and Holi. Sad indeed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QdpDe6f3Pl\">pic.twitter.com\/QdpDe6f3Pl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Murtaza Solangi (@murtazasolangi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/murtazasolangi\/status\/1456160102533238784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Actors Osman Khalid Butt and Armeena Khan also wished a very happy Diwali to Hindu community.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishing a very happy Diwali to everyone celebrating in Pakistan and around the world!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Osman Khalid Butt \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@aClockworkObi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aClockworkObi\/status\/1456190649934487553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmeenaRK\/status\/1455981620847071232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455981620847071232%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.dawn.com%2Fnews%2F1188726<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Actress Tooba Siddiqui and Zhalay Sarhadi took to Instagram Stories to wish their followers as well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--center    media--uneven  media--stretch\">\n<div class=\"media__item media__item--zoomable\"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2021\/11\/6183bf07357c0.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 992px)  1080px, (min-width: 768px)  800px,  500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/medium\/2021\/11\/6183bf07357c0.jpg 500w, https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2021\/11\/6183bf07357c0.jpg 800w, https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2021\/11\/6183bf07357c0.jpg 1080w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--center    media--uneven  media--stretch\">\n<div class=\"media__item media__item--zoomable\"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2021\/11\/6183bf06db472.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 992px)  1080px, (min-width: 768px)  800px,  500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/medium\/2021\/11\/6183bf06db472.jpg 500w, https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2021\/11\/6183bf06db472.jpg 800w, https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2021\/11\/6183bf06db472.jpg 1080w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Voice of South Asia (VOSA Tv) and its Team greets best wishes for Hindu community on the Festival of Lights- Diwali. Happy Diwali to Hindu Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk, Hindus across the world and especially in Pakistan were celebrating the festival of lights called Diwali. The five-day festival of lights is typically celebrated by socializing, exchanging gifts and lighting oil lamps or candles to symbolize the victory of light over darkness. Many of celebrities and politicians took to social media to wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-featured","category-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}