PSP also reject census result, announce protest against it

F.P. Report

KARACHI: Pakistan Sar Zameen Party (PSP) also rejected the initial results of census after the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) raised voice against it.

Senior leader of PSP, Advocate Anees told media persons on Tuesday that it is discriminatory towards the Karachi and rejected the census results. It is not acceptable to us in any manner, he added.

Anees added that some elements in the groups doesn’t want equal distribution of resources among the people so they always creating problems in this regard and trying to benefits one province with different tactics and depriving the rights of other provinces intentionally.

He informed that his party will protest against it on every platform including public awareness and contacting the Supreme Court for the rights of the people.

Earlier, PPP had announced to call an all parties conference (APC) to decide the future plan over the discrimination of federal government injustice in this regard.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nisar Ahmed Khoro said that showing less population in census results is a conspiracy, while a PPP lawmaker said that this was done to make sure Sindh didn’t get a raise in its share in National Finance Commission (NFC) award.

Provisional results of the census released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed that Karachi’s total population is 14.91 million, a 62 per cent increase from the 1998 figure of 9.339 million. In comparison, Lahore’s population went up by a whopping 116 per cent.