A meeting of the Ruet-e-Hilal Central Committee will be held on May 12 (Wednesday) evening to discover the Eid al-Fitr moon, a spokesman for the Ministry of Religious Affairs said on Saturday.
The committee chairman, Abdul Khabeer Azad, will chair the lunar vision session after the Maghreb prayers in Islamabad.
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The Ruet-e-Hilal zone committees would meet in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, and Peshawar, while the district authorities would meet at their respective headquarters that day.
The committee will announce whether or not the moon of the first Shawwal was sighted on Ramazan 29th. Shawwal is the 10th month of the Islamic lunar calendar.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had previously predicted that there would be no chance of seeing the new moon of Shawwal 1442 AH on the night of May 12, Ramadan 29 (Wednesday).
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Eid-ul-Fitr (first Shawwal) is likely to fall on Friday.
Shawwal’s new moon, 1442 AH, will rise at the crossing point at 00-01 PST on May 12, 2021 (Wednesday), the meteorological department said in a statement.
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According to astronomical parameters, “there is no chance” of seeing the new moon of Shawwal, 1442 AH, on the night of Wednesday, May 12, i.e. Ramadan 29, 1442 AH, the PMD office said.