• About us
  • Contact us
  • Our team
  • Terms of Service
Friday, August 8, 2025
Kashmir Images - Latest News Update
Epaper
  • TOP NEWS
  • CITY & TOWNS
  • LOCAL
  • BUSINESS
  • NATION
  • WORLD
  • SPORTS
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • ON HERITAGE
    • CREATIVE BEATS
    • INTERALIA
    • WIDE ANGLE
    • OTHER VIEW
    • ART SPACE
  • Photo Gallery
  • CARTOON
  • EPAPER
No Result
View All Result
Kashmir Images - Latest News Update
No Result
View All Result
Home NATION

Pak S&T minister ‘invites’ top clerics to see ‘how moon cycle works’

Press Trust of india by Press Trust of india
May 21, 2019
in NATION
A A
0
Pak S&T minister ‘invites’ top clerics to see ‘how moon cycle works’
FacebookTwitterWhatsapp

Islamabad, May 20 :  In an unusual move, Pakistan’s science and technology minister on Monday invited the country’s two leading clerics to see how “easy” science has made it to predict the lunar calendar to calculate the start of the holy fasting month of Ramzan.

In a statement that could further anger the conservative clerics in the Muslim majority nation, federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry invited Mufti Muneebur Rehman and Shahabuddin Popalzai to see how the moon cycle works.

Related posts

PM must tell Trump he lied on India-Pak hostilities: LoP Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi claims ‘proof of huge criminal fraud’ in polls; alleges EC-BJP collusion

August 8, 2025
Transport facilities arranged to ensure seamless participation in PM’s rally: BJP

Rahul’s poll fraud allegation a calculated deceit, Cong’s larger conspiracy against democracy: BJP

August 8, 2025

His invitation as the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan advocated a science-based lunar calendar to calculate the start of Ramzan.

“We are inviting Maulana Muneebur Rehman and Shahabuddin Popalzai to come and witness how the moon cycle works,” wrote Chaudhry on Twitter.

“And see for themselves how easy science has made it to predict the lunar calendar. There is no need for an arduous task,” he said sarcastically.

Since assuming office as the minister for science and technology, Chaudhry has been pushing for using science for the Islamic calendar and doing away with the traditional moon sighting method used by the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee.

“Every year on the occasion of Ramadan, Eid and Muharram a controversy starts regarding moonsighting,” Chaudhry said in a video he tweeted on May 5 in which he recalled watching the committee use telescopes to make their calculations.

Recently, Pakistan’s National Assembly, the lower house,  was told that Rs 3.06 million was spent on the sighting of the moon for Muharram, Ramazan, Eidul Fitr and Eidul Azha in 2018.

Earlier this month, the minister formed a five-member committee comprising officials from the S&T ministry, Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) and Pakistan Meteorological Department to prepare a lunar calendar and publish it by the 15th of Ramzan.

Speaking at an event at Karachi University, he said the ministry was also working on a mobile phone app that will enable people to sight the moon on their devices, the Express Tribune reported Monday.

Previous Post

India nearing LS results amidst speculations about winners, losers!

Next Post

Government Polytechnic Jammu celebrates annual day cum prize distribution function

Press Trust of india

Press Trust of india

Next Post
Government Polytechnic Jammu celebrates annual day cum prize distribution function

Government Polytechnic Jammu celebrates annual day cum prize distribution function

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

ePaper

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Our team
  • Terms of Service
E-Mailus: kashmirimages123@gmail.com

© 2024 Kashmir Images - Designed by GITS.

No Result
View All Result
  • TOP NEWS
  • CITY & TOWNS
  • LOCAL
  • BUSINESS
  • NATION
  • WORLD
  • SPORTS
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • ON HERITAGE
    • CREATIVE BEATS
    • INTERALIA
    • WIDE ANGLE
    • OTHER VIEW
    • ART SPACE
  • Photo Gallery
  • CARTOON
  • EPAPER

© 2024 Kashmir Images - Designed by GITS.