{"id":94413,"date":"2026-03-19T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=94413"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:26:54","slug":"crescent-not-sighted-eid-on-saturday-grand-mufti-nasir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/crescent-not-sighted-eid-on-saturday-grand-mufti-nasir\/","title":{"rendered":"Crescent not sighted, Eid on Saturday: Grand Mufti Nasir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Mar 19 (KNO): Grand Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam has announced that the crescent was not sighted anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday and Eid-ul-Fitr will be observed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement ended suspense across the Valley following Maghrib prayers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), he said no credible reports of moon sighting were received by the official moon-sighting committee. \u201cWith the crescent not sighted this evening, Edi-Ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Saturday,\u201d the Grand Mufti said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which includes Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, confirmed the decision after reviewing inputs from various districts. Muslims across J&amp;K will celebrate Eid on Saturday\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Mar 19 (KNO): Grand Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam has announced that the crescent was not sighted anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday and Eid-ul-Fitr will be observed on Saturday. &nbsp; The announcement ended suspense across the Valley following Maghrib prayers. &nbsp; Speaking to the news agency&mdash;Kashmir News Observer (KNO), he said no credible reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94415,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94413\/revisions\/94415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}