Islamabad: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) extended the date of the country’s ongoing digital census. It is now for the third time in a row, until April 20, the agency’s spokesman said.
Cities like Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi have been given the stretch. The work on the census will also continue in 20 more areas, such as Jacobdabad in Sindh. It will also keep going on in Balochistan.
During a meeting of the Census Monitoring Committee, where Ahsan Iqbal, the Minister of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives, was in charge, this happened.
At the meeting was also Syed Aminul Haque, who is the minister of information technology and the leader of a party called Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan. This party has raised concerns about the ongoing census.
The PBS spokesman said that the census has been done in all 122 districts in the country. Pakistan has more than 230.4 million people, according to the census that has been done so far.
For the first time in the country’s history, the current census is being done digitally by PBS. The seventh count of the country’s people has been going on since March 1, with no breaks.
But the government body has been pushing back the date for finishing the census work to make sure the rest of the count is done right and that everyone is counted.
The date for the population count has been pushed back for the third time. Before, the PBS pushed back the date until April 15 and April 10, respectively.
