Yes, it’s Eid today
Mufti Popalzai enjoys his writ, at least on moon sighting matters, in much of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province
May 13, 2021
In a pattern similar to the previous year, it took several hours after the sunset for the Central Reut-e-Hilal Committee to announce that the crescent for Eid-ul Fitr had been sighted and that the biggest Muslim festival would be celebrated in Pakistan on Thursday i.e. today. The unusually delayed decision followed an announcement by Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai — who heads a private moon-sighting committee based at Peshawar’s historic Majid-e-Qasim — that on the basis of as many as 189 evidences of moon-sighting received from Mardan, Charsadda and Peshawar, Eid would be celebrated in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday.