CCI approves results of Population Census 2023

ISLAMABAD: The Council of Common Interests has approved the results of the digital Population and Housing Census 2023, citing sources ARY News reported on Saturday. 

The approval of digital census results was the key agenda of the CCI session today with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in chair.

The Ministry of Planning and Development briefed the CCI session on the digital census results for approval from the constitutional forum.

Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Caretaker CM Punjab Mohsin Naqvi, Minister of Finance Ishaq Dar, federal ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Naveed Qamar, Saad Rafique, Qamar Zaman Kaira and ministers of law, information technology and communication attending the CCI session.

Chief Ministers of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces were represented by the chief secretaries of the federating units. The Council of Common Interest taken the Chief Minister of Balochistan into confidence.

Chief Secretaries of four provinces attended crucial meeting.

The participants of the CCI meeting will proceed over a report compiled by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

The PBS has accomplished the exercise of holding the latest Population Census and compiled the results which have been forwarded to the CCI for seeking guidance/approval from the constitutional forum.

Recently, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the upcoming general elections will be held on the 2023 census.