The lunar moon for Ramadan has been located and the principal day of the fasting month will be seen on Thursday the nation over.
This year, the blessed month has begun crosswise over Pakistan including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) alongside Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Gulf nations around the same time.
The declaration was made by Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Munibur Rehman subsequent to leading a gathering at the Pakistan Meteorological Department Complex, Karachi on Wednesday evening.
Ramazan liable to start from May 17 in Pakistan
The PMD on May 4 had issued a freebee expressing that there are reasonable possibilities for the moon to be located on May 16 evening. It expressed that as indicated by cosmic parameters, there is a reasonable possibility of locating the new moon of Ramazan, 1439 AH on 29th of Shaban, 1439 AH.
On Tuesday, Khalid Ejaz Mufti, the Secretary General of the Ruet-e-Hilal Research Council (RHRC) had said that the heavenly month could start from Thursday in spite of the way that Ramazan moon was not located in Gulf and the Far East nations.
In Pakistan, Ramazan for the most part starts a day after it begins in Saudi Arabia.
Moon locating remains a problem for researchers
As indicated by Mufti, new moon could be located just if its age was over 19 hours at dusk and the contrast amongst nightfall and moonset is over 40 minutes.
He included the age of the new moon on Wednesday night will be over 26 hours in all urban areas of Pakistan, and the contrast amongst dusk and moonset will be 58-a hour.
After the declaration, Pakistan, after decades-long slip by, has joined other world nations in beginning the fasting month around the same time
As per media reports, Muslims in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan will likewise start the sacred month shape Thursday.
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