PTI plans grand protest against ‘controversial’ census
- By Web Desk -
- Apr 24, 2023
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has formulated a strategy of a grand protest against the ‘controversial’ census in Karachi, ARY News reported on Monday.
PTI Karachi President Aftab Siddiqui chaired a session and decided to stage a grand protest against the statistics of the digital census. He said that the population of Sindh was increased by 5 million but Karachi’s population was undercounted.
Siddiqui said that accurate counting of rural and urban Sindh’s population must be conducted.
The PTI Karachi president said that the digital census will affect the delimitations and the National Assembly (NA) seats. The flawed census exposed the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) malice.
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He appealed to the Karachiites for supporting the PTI against the controversial census.
Population Census
The Population Census exercise could not be concluded despite three extensions, while the fourth extension of the exercise has been under consideration.
The digital census exercise will be suspended for five days from April 21 to 25 owing to Eid holidays, a spokesperson said. The Census Monitoring Committee will decide about further extension in the census exercise, according to the spokesperson.
Earlier, the digital census exercise, which was decided to be concluded by April 04 was given three extensions, first to April 10, then 15 and after it to April 20.
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A spokesperson for the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics today said that the population count of the country has reached 23,53,88,890 in the digital census exercise.
Muhammad Sarwar Gondal has said that in Karachi over 16.5 mln people and in Lahore 11.5 mln people have been counted so far.
In the digital census exercise 11,63,49,000 population has been counted in Punjab, while 5,28,57,803 in Sindh, a PBS spokesperson said.
The population in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been counted at 3,92,43,320 as per the census figures, while in Balochistan it has been 1,92,55,648, the spokesperson said.