Pakistan, as usual, celebrated Eid dividedly. The controversy of dual Eid persists and the issue over time appears to be less religious and more of political nature, where parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan with their ritual prescription, this time too, celebrated Eid a day before the rest of the country. As a matter fact this time even KP was divided and many offered their Eid prayers on Saturday (October 4), corresponding to Saudi Arabia. Despite being heavily criticised by the general public, several district and local moon sighting committees do not coordinate with the central Ruet-e-Hilal committee, a federal moon sighting team, and announce Eid at their own will. No respect is given to the announcements by this federal committee. As a result some areas (often Peshawar and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) celebrate Eid a day or two before Islamabad. Using the excuse of having testimonies required by the Shariah (Islamic jurisprudence), these communities completely defy the integrity of a nation. A similar problem appears at the global level where different Muslim communities celebrate Eid on different days. The question arises why, in the 21st century, when even an algorithm can calculate and provide you an accurate calendar of millennia, not to mention the sundry advanced technological devices the world possesses, the Muslim world fumbles over deciding when to celebrate Eid. We in Pakistan still rely on the feeble human eye to catch a glimpse of the crescent and without that testimony no one can pronounce that the moon has in fact been sighted. If the Christian world can come up with a calendar that is universally followed, why can the Muslim world not agree to create a lunar calendar that would be equally credible and followed universally? As the Muslim world is falling apart with almost every other country being involved in some sort of civil or conventional war, there is a serious political and religious crisis where one cannot find a consensus even on festive occasions like Eid. To solve this self-created crisis, not only should the Pakistani state come together, the Muslim world as a whole should sit down and solve once and for all this lingering problem of dual (or multiple) Eids. These schisms defy the very essence of such festivities and events, which are meant to symbolise the unity of the Muslim world. *