According to lunar calendar, Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on June 5 while Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated on August 12 this year.
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 26th May, 2019) Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has announced Eid-ul-Fitr on June 5.
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain announced this while launching moonsighting website and lunar calendar on Sunday.
Fawad Chaudhry has finally come up with a five-year lunar calendar to end the moon sighting controversies once and for all.
The Lunar Calendar prepared with the help of experts includes the important dates from 2019 till 2024.
According to this lunar calendar, Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on June 5 while Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated on August 12 this year.
Meanwhile, a meeting of Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee would be held in Karachi on Tuesday (June 4) (29,Ramazan-ul-Mubarak,1440,Hijri) for sighting the crescent of Shawwal-ul-Mukarram 1440 AH.
Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman will chair the meeting of Zonal Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, Sindh at Pakistan Meteorological Department building, Main University Road, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi.
The other members of committee will attend Zonal and District Ruet-e-Hilal Committees at their respective places.
The meeting of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) committee would be held at Ministry of Religious Affairs, near General Post Office (GPO) Islamabad.
The Chairman Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman will announce the decision of crescent sighting or otherwise subsequently on the basis of information received.
According to weather department the crescent of Eid-ul-Fitr is most likely to be sighted in the evening of Tuesday June 4, thus Eid would be observed on Wednesday June 5.
