Plea filed in SC to form Higher Ruet-e-Hilal Committee

ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Supreme Court (SC) making a plea that a Higher Authority Committee is formed for sighting of the moon and deciding for the Hijri Calendar. Geo News reported that Advocate Mirza Anwar-ul-Haq filed a petition in SC pleading that a Higher Authority Committee be formed on federal level for the sighting of the moon, comprising of Ulemas and related technocrats and that the Committee be entrusted with the powers to have its decisions enforced. The decisions of the present Ruet-e-Hilal Committee should be followed till the formation of the Higher Authority Committee, the petition further reads