June 15: Dawn states that the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced on Thursday that the Shawwal moon had not been sighted and that Eidul Fitr would be celebrated on Saturday. The announcement was made by Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Chairman of the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, after a meeting in Karachi. But the moon-sighting controversy dogging the country for the past few years raised its head again as the self-styled Ruet-i-Hilal committee based at Peshawar’s Qasim Ali Khan mosque claimed it had received 14 testimonies about sighting of Shawwal moon.
Dawn: Moon not sighted, but Peshawar mosque says Eid today
