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KARACHI: A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will be held in Sindh’s capital today.
Chairman of the Committee, Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman will preside over the meeting to decide about the sighting of the moon of Ramzan.
The meetings of zonal and district Ruet-e-Hilal committees will also be held at their respective headquarters for collecting evidence in respect of sighting or otherwise of the Ramzan moon.
Earlier on Wednesday, an official of the Ministry of Science and Technology had been included in the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee.
According to a notification, Dr. Tariq Masood, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Science and Technology was appointed as a member (technical expert) in the committee.
Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry in this regard, took to Twitter and expressed his happiness by saying, “For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been included in the Ruet-e-Hilal committee.”
Earlier this month, Fawad Chaudhry had said that the Ramazan moon will be sighted on 24th April as per the lunar calendar, marking the first fast of the holy month of Ramazan on 25th April.
Chaudhry, who had announced the same date for the first fastback in February as well, mentioned that there had been a plan to gather people for the moon sighting. However, it has been called off owing to the coronavirus pandemic, which health experts say can be prevented by avoiding public congregations.
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