{"id":112741,"date":"2026-05-16T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=112741"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:56:44","slug":"ruet-e-hilal-committee-meeting-called-tomorrow-to-sight-the-moon-of-dhul-hijjah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ruet-e-hilal-committee-meeting-called-tomorrow-to-sight-the-moon-of-dhul-hijjah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meeting called tomorrow to sight the moon of Dhul-Hijjah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee has been called tomorrow to sight the moon of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/uae-eid-al-adha-2026-holidays-announced\/\">Dhul-Hijjah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee has been called for tomorrow, Sunday, May 17, corresponding to 29th Dhul-Qa\u2019dah. The date of Eid-ul-Adha will also be decided after the sighting of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Ministry of Religious Affairs said that the meeting has been called at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, Karachi. Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, Maulana Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad, will preside over the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings of the Zonal and District Ruet-e-Hilal Committees will also be held at their respective headquarters that evening. The final announcement of the sighting of the moon will be made by Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Suparco has predicted that the moon of Dhul-Hijjah is likely to be sighted on May 17, thus Eid-ul-Adha is strongly expected to be on May 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee has been called tomorrow to sight the moon of Dhul-Hijjah. A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee has been called for tomorrow, Sunday, May 17, corresponding to 29th Dhul-Qa\u2019dah. The date of Eid-ul-Adha will also be decided after the sighting of the moon. A spokesperson for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":104608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[42254,35487],"class_list":["post-112741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-dhul-hijjah","tag-ruet-e-hilal-committee-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112742,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112741\/revisions\/112742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}