EARLIER this week, the Council of Common Interests approved the controversial National Population and Housing Census, 2017, with a majority vote after over three years. Sindh stuck to its stance, voting against the census results. The MQM, the ruling party’s coalition partner from urban Sindh, had already rejected the results during a cabinet meeting when the government decided to put the matter before the CCI. In view of the large-scale reservations on the census results, the CCI also decided to organise a new census for fresh delimitations of national and provincial constituencies before the next elections in 2023. The Sindh government and MQM are not alone in their concerns. Opposition parties in KP had expressed their doubts about the data collected from erstwhile Fata. Similarly, some have misgivings about the authenticity and quality of the census data related to religious minorities and transgender persons. The census directly affects the number and size of the national, pro
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April 13, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar Monday said the Council of Common Interests (CCI) had by majority approved the release of population census results of 2017 with Sindh the only province opposing the move.
The government also decided to hold the next census in October this year by adopting the latest technology in order to avert the mistakes committed in the last census. The census results would be made available by 2023.
After attending the CCI meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, Asad Umar told reporters here that there were only two options: to accept the results of 2017 population census or to reject them in totality.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar Monday said the Council of Common Interests had by majority approved the release of population census results of 2017 with Sindh.
April 13, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar Monday said the Council of Common Interests (CCI) had by majority approved the release of population census results of 2017 with Sindh the only province opposing the move.
The government also decided to hold the next census in October this year by adopting the latest technology in order to avert the mistakes committed in the last census.
The census results would be made available by 2023. After attending the CCI meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, Asad Umar told reporters here that there were only two options: to accept the results of 2017 population census or to reject them in totality. He said if the census results had been rejected, then the situation might have landed the country back into 1998 situation.