Body to devise SOPs for Ruet-e-Hilal system

Committee will give final shape to unified framework in consonance with Ulema, stakeholders

ISLAMABAD:

 Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Noorul Haq Qadri on Thursday formed a committee for making standard operating procedures (SOPs) to remove all the anomalies in the present Ruet-e-Hilal Committee’s system.

He announced this while holding a meeting with Ulema of various schools of thought and stakeholders here in the religious ministry.

The committee is consisted of Jamia Subhania Rizvia Maladag Dargai’s Mufti Fazal-e-Jameel Rizvi, Jamia Minhajul Hussain, Shahrah Ali Bin Talib Principal Allama Muhammad Hussain Akbar and Jamia-tul-Rasheed’s Mufti Faisal Ahmed.

The committee will give a final shape to the unified framework in consonance with Ulema and stakeholders such as; Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan Meteorological Department and Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission etcetera in a month.