Census results: Centre calls IPC meeting to address provinces’ concerns
PPP and MQM have said they reject provisional census results released earlier this week
August 30, 2017
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has called a meeting of the Inter-Provincial Coordination Division to address the provinces’ concerns over the provisional census results released earlier this week.
The Sindh government on Monday announced that it would reject the provisional results of the sixth population census.
Terming the results a conspiracy against the province by the federal government, senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader Nisar Khuhro said the PPP government will not let the province be treated in an unfair manner.
The provincial government also alleged that Sindh’s population was shown to be less than its actual number in order to not increase the province’s share in the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Farooq Sattar on Sunday announced to lead a protest rally in 72 hours against the provisional census results.
Speaking in the party's general workers’ convention at PIB Colony football ground, Sattar said by understating the population of Karachi census results have done injustice to all ethnic communities living in the metropolis.
He said that Karachi's population in actual is around 30 million — whereas according to the census it is 10.6 million.
Sattar said to record its protest against the census result, MQM-P will take a rally from Mazar-e-Quaid to Statistics Division or Supreme Court's Karachi registry.
The federal government had earlier rejected the reservations raised by Sindh's political parties and said the process of conducting the census was transparent.
It said that all provinces had monitoring committees which were briefed on a regular basis while the census was being conducted.
The government further said that additional time was given to address all reservations and complaints.
