The Federal cabinet has on Wednesday approves three bills drafted by thereligious affairs ministry.

According to sources, the federal cabinet has ratified a bill that seeksimprisonment and a fine of Rs500,000 for people involved in private moonsightings.

The Ruet-e-Hilal Committeelink2020,Muslim Family Law 2020, and Publication of Holy Quran Amendment Bill werealso approved during the meeting.

The sources said that under the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee 2020, people whoform private Ruet-e-Hilal committees would be fined and imprisoned. Thedecisions of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will be binding acrossPakistan.

As per the Publication of the Holy Quran Amendment Bill, high quality paperand board will be used for the printing of the Quran. Under the amendmentbill, there will be fines and penalties for substandard printing.

Earlier, Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, hadbeen removed from office.

According to the notification issued by the government, Maulana AbdulKhabir had been appointed as the new chairman of central Ruet-e-HilalCommittee.

According to sources, the committee has 19 members, including RaghibNaeemi, Hussain Akbar, Maulana Fazlur Rahim, Dr Yaseen Zafar, Mufti IqbalChishti, Dr Mufti Ali Asghar, Faisal Ahmed, Syed Ali Qarar Naqvi, MuftiFazl Jameel, Hafiz Abdul Ghafoor. , Yusuf Kashmiri, Qari Mirullah,Habibullah Chishti and Mufti Zameer.

The committee also includes a representative from SUPARCO, Pakistan Spaceand Upper Atmosphere Research Commission and the Ministry of ReligiousAffairs.