Elections on census 2017 unacceptable: BAP
- 18-Jul-2023
QUETTA: Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) has shown reservations about holding elections on the census 2017, ARY News reported. As per details, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Agha Hasan Baloch said that BAP demands to hold elections on the new census. He said that if the election are held based on the old census it […]
Final statistics of census 2017 released
- 19-May-2021
The statistics agency says that the population of Pakistan is 207, 684,626.
CCI to deliberate provisional census results today
- 13-Nov-2017
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) is to meet today to discuss reservations of Sindh province about the Provisional Census Report 2017 to pave the way for fresh delimitation of constituencies and reallocation of seats in the National Assembly. The meeting has been convened to break the deadlock over the mandatory constitutional amendment for […]
Second round of talks on fresh delimitation ends inconclusively
- 08-Nov-2017
ISLAMABAD: Second round of talks between the government and the opposition parties to hammer out consensus on a constitutional amendment bill for fresh delimitation of constituencies ahead of coming general elections ended inconclusively on Wednesday. The government once again failed to convince the major opposition parties to back out of their demand to seek approval […]
Khursheed Shah says no harm in holding next polls on old census
- 07-Nov-2017
ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday sought to vindicate his suggestion for holding upcoming general elections on the basis of an old census, saying there is no harm in holding the polls in the light of old census figures. Speaking to the media here, Khursheed Shah expressed his dismay over […]
Interior Minister assures to allay opposition parties’ concern over census
- 06-Nov-2017
PESHAWAR: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday dubbed a suggestion to hold 2018 general elections on the basis of old census as immature. He was referring to the leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah’s suggestion to hold the elections on the basis of old census figures. Ahsan Iqbal said speaking of delaying […]
MQM-P chief spurns census 2017 results
- 05-Nov-2017
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar on Sunday dismissed census 2017 results terming it rigged, ARY News reported. He said it seemed as if cannibalism was done instead of census as a large portion of population was cut down. “The figures of census results suggest as if census was conducted by cannibals. We […]
Constitutional amendment draft for constituencies finalized: NA Speaker
- 01-Nov-2017
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of parliamentary parties have finalized a draft of constitutional amendment bill for delimitation of constituencies on the basis of the provisional results of census 2017, said NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday. The second round of the meeting of parliamentary heads held today at the Parliament House to deliberate on legislation for fresh delimitation […]
Second block of phase-1 under 6th population census starts today
- 31-Mar-2017
ISLAMABAD: The population and house count in the second block of first phase under ‘sixth population and housing census’ in 63 districts across the country started today (Friday), ARY News reported. The house listing in the second block will remain continue for three days while the headcount will begin from April 3 which will continue […]
SHC summons govt reply over leaving out Sikhism in Census form
- 21-Mar-2017
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) has summoned reply from the federal government by March 27, over not including a column on Sikhism in the ongoing population count, ARY News reported. A petition filed in SHC by Sardar Heera Singh and others, stated that hundreds of thousands Sikhs live in Pakistan, and excluding them from the […]