Karachi: Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Sunday that the 15-day extension of the deadline for the census proved that the party’s position on the census was right.
The MQM-P, which has a strong opinion on the matter. He rejected the first-ever digital census done by Sindh government employees last month. This was because Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) chief statistician Dr. Naeem Uz Zafar said that “it is not necessary that Karachi’s population will show as 30 million” after the census.
“We asked for the time for the census to be extended, and it was done. This means that our worries were real,” Siddiqui said at the MQM-P’s temporary head office in Bahadurabad, where he was holding a press conference with other party leaders.
While, He said that the ongoing census of the population was important for the whole country.
“The urban census has been unfair for the past 50 years. “Only the cities of Sindh need to protest, object, and appeal,” he said.
The politician said that in 2017, many people in Karachi and the rest of the province who lived in cities were not counted. He said that they are worried that the census is not being done right in Sindh’s cities.
Siddiqui went on to say that his party tried to fix the census by working with two different governments. He then asked that everyone in the whole country be counted correctly.
“This is a matter of life and death for us,” he said. He also said that the government was listening to the party’s concerns for the first time, and that “we have succeeded in getting them to meet our demands.”
Moreover, He said that the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has also admitted making many mistakes.
