 Retaining Thanvi as the head of the central committee, the law also stipulated that its members, including the chairman, would have only a single three-year tenure.Before the Eid ul Fither of June 2017 the government had forcibly sent Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai of Peshawar-based Masjid Qasim abroad just ahead of the Eidul Fitr in a bid to end the moon-sighting controversy, his colleague Mulana Khairul Bashar alleged.People who has sighted the moon by themselves, can convey the information about the position of the moon to the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee or Pakistan Meteorological department, on their phone numbers.