Moon sighting issue being taken to court

By AFP
August 23, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ulema Council has decided to take the matter of multiple Eids in different parts of the country to court...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ulema Council has decided to take the matter of multiple Eids in different parts of the country to court according to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi.

He says that the matter of moon sighting should be handed over to the astronomers.

It is worth mentioning here that like many previous years, there was a lot of conflict on the sighting of the moon this year as well and South Waziristan, Kyber Pakhtunkhwa and other areas of the country celebrated the festival on three different dates.

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