Islamabad: Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated across the country tomorrow (Tuesday) with religious zeal and fervour. Big Eid congregations will be held at open places, mosques and Eidgahs in all major cities and towns. The Ulema in their sermons will highlight the significance and philosophy of Eid ul Fitr. Special prayers will be offered for the progress and prosperity of the country and welfare of the Muslim Ummah.

In the Federal capital, the main Eid congregation will be held at the Faisal Mosque where top government officials and envoys of Muslim countries will offer Eid prayers. Meanwhile, the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Yemen as well as Muslims in Europe, America and East Asia are celebrating Eid ul Fitr today.

In a message on the occasion, the OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha has expressed warm felicitations to the entire Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr. The Secretary General asserted that, although the Eid is an occasion that carries lofty meanings and feelings, the existence of numerous crises in the Ummah as we celebrate the Eid remains a source of distress.

He renewed the solidarity of the OIC with the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the face of wicked Israeli onslaught. The OIC Secretary General equally expressed solidarity with the Rohingya refugees, Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir and other Muslims in various part of the world.