Popalzai says Eid moon not sighted, but N. Waziristan body disagrees.

PESHAWAR/MIRAMSHAH -- Peshawar's Qasim Khan Mosque said on Friday that it had not received evidence about the sighting of Shawwal moon from anywhere in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 'Therefore, Eidul Fitr will be celebrated on Sunday (tomorrow),' Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai, who heads the mosque's moon-sighting committee, said after a meeting in the evening.

But a self-appointed committee in North Waziristan tribal district came up with a claim late in the night that it had...

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