KARACHI: The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced the sighting of the Shawwal moon on Monday and Eidul Fitr will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday.

The committee which held its meeting at the Met Department in Karachi said it had received evidence about the sighting of the crescent from more than half a dozen places in the country.

“It has been decided with consensus that 1st Shawwal 1435 Hijri will fall on Tuesday,” the committee chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman said at a press conference.

“Meetings of the regional committees were also held in provincial capitals and their representatives were present in almost every district. The central committee received information about moon sigh­ting mainly from Jacobabad, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Zhob, Rohri and Padidan,” he said.

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2014