{"id":97829,"date":"2026-01-19T22:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97829"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:07:16","slug":"shaban-to-begin-on-jan-21-as-moon-not-sighted-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shaban-to-begin-on-jan-21-as-moon-not-sighted-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaban to begin on Jan 21 as moon not sighted today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The first of Shaban will be on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistani-rupee-pkr-remains-stable-against-us-dollar-january-21-2025\/\">January 21<\/a> as the Shaban moon was not sighted in Pakistan today.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee was held in Islamabad to see the Shaban Moon. Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Maulana Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad presided over the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings of the Zonal Ruet-e-Hilal Committees were also held in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar. Officials from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Science and Technology, Suparco and other institutions participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee reviewed the evidence regarding the sighting of the moon of Shaban.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee announced that the Shaban was not sighted in Pakistan today, the first of Shaban will be on Wednesday, January 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The first of Shaban will be on Wednesday, January 21 as the Shaban moon was not sighted in Pakistan today. A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee was held in Islamabad to see the Shaban Moon. Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Maulana Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad presided over the meeting. Meetings of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11704],"class_list":["post-97829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-shaban-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97829","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=97829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97830,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97829\/revisions\/97830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}