ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the committee constituted for bringing out lunar calendar has been convened on Thursday, ARY News reported on Tuesday.
The committee was formed by Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry. It will review the five-year lunar calendar in the meeting.
The Ruet e Hilal committee will form calendar for Ramadan, Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha and Muharram.
The committee members comprise Dr Mohammed Tariq, Waqar Ahmed, Nadeem Faisal, Abu Nisan and Ghulam Murtaza.
On May 5, Fawad Chaudhry had underscored needs for adopting modern techniques for moon sighting that would help to resolve unending disputes emerged on Ruet-e-Hilal [moon sighting].
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Fawad Chaudhry, in his latest messages on Twitter, had criticised emergence of disputes which emerge every time during moon sighting to declare the initiation of a new month of the Islamic calendar in accordance with lunar crescent despite the presence of modern technologies.
While giving an answer to a user’s question, he had said, “The decision for running the country cannot be left singularly on maulana [religious figure].”
He had said that “By this way, the process to establish Pakistan did not happen as all renowned clerics had opposed the establishment of Pakistan who also termed Mr Jinnah as ‘Kafir-e-Azam [infidel]”
