Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meets today for Ramadan moon sighting

ISLAMABAD: Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will meet today (Monday) for the Ramadan moon sighting of Hijri year 1445 in Peshawar.

Ruet-e-Hilal committee chairman Abdul Khabir Azad will preside over the meeting. The committee session will be start after Asr prayers. The committee will make announcement about Ramadan moon sighting or otherwise.

Maulana Khabir expressed hope that the holy month begins on the same day throughout the country.

He also called on Pakistanis to look for the Ramadan moon in the evening.

The meetings of other zonal and district Ruet-e-Hilal Committees will be held simultaneously at their respective places today as well.

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On the other hand, according to astronomers, although the moon of Ramadan will rise on March 10, it will not be visible at that time, and it will be clearly visible on March 11.

First Taraweeh in Pakistan will take place on the night of March 11 as there is a 95 percent probability that the first fast will be observed on Tuesday (March 12).

Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced sighting the crescent of the new lunar month marking the beginning of holy Ramadan in the kingdom. 

Social media handle for news and announcements about the two holy mosques, the Grand Mosque of Makkah and the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mosque in Madina, confirmed the Ramadan crescent citing the nation’s moon-sighting committee.