Eid Al Azha, Eid al Adha Date & Day -2010

Visibility Predictions for the New Crescent Moon
New York
Longitude W073 55
Latitude N40 45
Time Zone + 05h 00m
Times are in Standard Time = GMT - 05h 00m

New Moon Birth Date Sun Moon at Sunset Moon Lag BEST Code
+ Set Az Age Alt Az DAZ Mag El Set Time TIME
year mth day h m d mth day h m o h m o o o o h m m h m
2010 Nov 5 23 52 Fri
1 Sat Nov 6 16 46 249 16 54 0 239 10 -4.5 10 16 52 5 16 49 F
2 Sun Nov 7 16 45 249 40 53 7 228 21 -5.8 22 17 41 56 17 10 A

A Easily visible
B Visible under perfect conditions
C May need optical aid to find the crescent Moon
D Will need optical aid to find the crescent Moon
E Not visible with a telescope
F Not visible, below the Danjon limit


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Eid-ul Azha on November 17

The Central Ruet-e-Hilal committee met at the Ministry of Religious Affairs

The Zilhaj moon has been sighted and Eid-ul Azha will be celebrated in Pakistan on November 17.

The Central Ruet-e-Hilal committee met at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, under the chairmanship of Mufti Munib ur Rehman.

The Zilhaj moon has already been sighted in Saudi Arabia, based on which Hajj will start on November 15.

Health concerns this Eid

Health experts have warned that if preventive measures are not put in place, Congo fever could become a grave concern with the arrival of sacrificial animals into urban centres for Eidul Azha.

Market attack in NW Pakistan kills at least 12

08 Nov 2009 10:19:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
- For more on Afghanistan & Pakistan conflicts, click [ID:nAFPAK]

* Some 36 wounded in attack at market near Peshawar

* Target of attack was village mayor critical of militants

* Twenty more militants killed in South Waziristan (Adds death toll, Waziristan offensive)

By Faris Ali

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near Pakistan's volatile city of Peshawar on Sunday, officials said.

The bomber blew himself up as Abdul Malik, mayor of Matni village, was visiting a market crowded with people and goats being sold for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Muslims slaughter goats, cows, buffaloes and camels on Eid al-Adha, which will be celebrated later this month.

"Twelve people have been killed, including a four-year-old child, and 36 people are wounded," Mohammad Mukhtar, a doctor at Peshawar's main government hospital, told Reuters. Matni is close to the lawless tribal lands where Islamist militants are active.

Islamist militants have unleashed a campaign of bomb and suicide attacks in Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for a major offensive launched by security forces in their main bastion, South Waziristan, on the Afghan border.

The army on Sunday said 20 militants were killed in the latest fighting there, taking their total death toll to 478 since the offensive began.

Forty-four soldiers have been killed in the same period, according to military figures. There was no independent verification of casualties as reporters and other independent observers are not allowed into the war zone.

That assault in South Waziristan's rugged landscape of barren mountains and hidden ravines, now a centre of global Islamist militancy, is being closely watched by the United States and other powers embroiled in Afghanistan. [ID:nSP235736]

TALIBAN BACKER-TURNED-ENEMY

To support their overall anti-militant drive, Pakistani authorities have encouraged Pashtun tribes to revive traditional militia to counter rising Islamist militancy.

Malik was once a Taliban supporter, but switched loyalty to the government in recent years and had survived several assassination attempts by the militants.

He was also head head of a lashkar, or tribal militia, raised by the villagers against the militants.

"He was pro-government and was deadly against the Taliban," Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali Khan said.

Militants have killed numerous pro-government tribal elders over the past few years, and have stepped up attacks recently.

Last month, more than 100 people were killed in a car bombing in Peshawar in the deadliest attack in the country in two years.

More than 150 people were killed in attacks before the army began the assault in South Waziristan.

The army went on the offensive in the ethnic Pashtun region on Oct. 17 aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants behind a wave of violence in urban areas.

Soldiers have been advancing into the militant heartland from three directions and had entered their headquarters of Makeen on Friday. [ID:nSP402645] (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)

(Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Bryson Hull and Sanjeev Miglani))