PESHAWAR (DNA News) – Eid-ul-Fitr is being celebrated on Tuesday (today) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) at official level as Eid prayers have been offered in Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda, Mardan, Swabi, Hangu, Bannu and merged districts of tribal areas.

KP Information Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai had on Monday said that Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated in the whole province on Tuesday after receiving testimonies of Shawwal moon sighting from across the province.

Earlier, the committee of Masjid Qasim Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital, Peshawar announced that it has received testimonies regarding the sighting of the Shawwal moon.

Mufti Popalzai headed the committee which announced that Eid would be celebrated on Tuesday as over 100 testimonies were received from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The announcement came a day before the official Ruet-e-Hilal committee under the chair of Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman would convene its sessions to sight the Shawwal moon.

Let it be known that Fawad Chaudhry, Minister for Science and Technology, has already announced that Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated on June 5 ‘without any doubt’.

Shawwal moon was sighted in Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday night, and Eid-ul-Fitr is being observed today.