{"id":1147166,"date":"2026-01-16T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1147166"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:08:01","slug":"suparco-announces-expected-moon-sighting-for-shaaban-1447-ah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/suparco-announces-expected-moon-sighting-for-shaaban-1447-ah\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPARCO announces expected moon sighting for Shaaban 1447 AH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP):The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) has announced that the new moon of Shaaban 1447 AH, is expected to be born on January 19, 2026 at 00:52 PST.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of sunset on Jan 19, the age of the new moon will be approximately 17 hours and 36 minutes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The time duration between sunset and moonset is expected to be 33 minutes along the coastal areas of the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on astronomical parameters,\u00a0 the chances of sighting of the new moon with naked are very low in the evening of 19 Jan 2026.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consequently, the 1st of Shaaban may likely to fall on Jan 21.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final announcement regarding the beginning of the Islamic month will be made by the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Pakistan, which is the sole competent authority, based on credible witness testimonies from across the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP):The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) has announced that the new moon of Shaaban 1447 AH, is expected to be born on January 19, 2026 at 00:52 PST. At the time of sunset on Jan 19, the age of the new moon will be approximately 17 hours and 36 minutes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4243,4244],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1147166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-moon-sighting","tag-upper-atmosphere","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147166"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1147166"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1147166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}