{"id":6553,"date":"2021-03-14T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:15:32","slug":"shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-pakistan-first-shaban-on-march-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/14\/shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-pakistan-first-shaban-on-march-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaban moon 2021 not sighted in Pakistan, first Shaban on March 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moon for the holy month of Shaban 2021 was not sighted in Pakistan on Sunday evening,\u00a0 Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee announced.<\/p>\n<p>The first of Shaban will fall on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. A meeting of Ruet-e-Hilal was held today to sight the crescent moon of the blessed month of Shaban al-Moazzam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6555\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-Pakistan-first-Shaban-on-March16-rapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"Shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-Pakistan-first-Shaban-on-March16-rapidnews\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-Pakistan-first-Shaban-on-March16-rapidnews.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-Pakistan-first-Shaban-on-March16-rapidnews-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Shaban-moon-2021-not-sighted-in-Pakistan-first-Shaban-on-March16-rapidnews-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chairman Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Maulana Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad attended the meeting of Zonal Committee, Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The other members of the Ruet-Hilal Committee attended the meetings of provincial\/ district\/zonal committees at their respective provincial\/ district headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, the Ruet-Hilal Committee announced that information regarding the sighting of the crescent should be conveyed to Maulana Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad on mobile no. 0321-9410041. The information regarding crescent sighting could also be conveyed to Syed Mushahid Hussain Khalid, Director General, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on his mobile numbers 0300-6831882 and Hafiz Abdul Quddos, Deputy Director of the Ministry on mobile numbers 0333-2697051.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Astronomical Parameters had suggested that the chances of sighting the new crescent moon of Shaban were very bright on the evening of Sunday, Malik Qadir, a meteorologist had told APP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon for the holy month of Shaban 2021 was not sighted in Pakistan on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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