Eid-ul-Fitr today
KARACHI: Eid-ul- Fitr will be celebrated in the country on Aug 31, announced Chairman Central Ruet-i- Hilal Committee, Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman here at the Met Office.
The committee held its meeting at the office of the Meteorological Department Complex University Road to collect evidence of moon sighting from its zonal committees all over the country.
"The moon has been sighted at various places of Balochistan and Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite an overcast sky in most of parts of the country," he added.
Mufti Muneeb said that the committee had received evidence of moon sighting by witnesses from parts of Karachi, Tando Mohammad Khan, Tando Alahyar in Sindh, Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Vehari, Rawalpindi and Sialkot in the Punjab.
He said that 1st of Shawwal, 1432 Hijra would be on Wednesday.
All the members of Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee were present on the occasion and were assisted by members of zonal committees in different headquarters. Besides, experts from Met office, SUPARCO and Pakistan Navy also assisted the committee.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
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