Tag: census

MQM-P Nasreen Jaleel urges PM to re-conduct Karachi’s ‘Population Census’

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Senator Nasreen Jaleel has urged Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan and other representatives of the federal government to conduct...

ECP decides to start fresh delimitations across country

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday decided to start fresh delimitations across the country for local body elections. According to the commission, the...

CCI unlikely to allow audit of 5 per cent of 2017...

Result of 6th census likely to be finalised without audit due to time constraint ISLAMABAD: The demand of some political parties for the audit...

PBS provides census data to ECP

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has provided all the required census data to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as decided in a meeting...

‘Opposition doing negative politics for vested interests’

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Privatisation Daniyal Aziz Sunday said that the opposition parties were doing negative politics for their vested interests. “Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and some...

Sindh Assembly passes law to conduct animal ‘census’

KARACHI: Disappointed with the results of the human census conducted this year, the Sindh Assembly members have decided to enact a law to tabulate...

Bilawal assails PML-N for conducting census ‘in a poor manner’

--PPP chairman announces Punjab-wide visits to educational institutes   LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday said the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...

FAFEN cautions against deviation from constitutional framework

Says all federating units must be allocated seats on basis of their population Calls for due diligence in the usage of provisional census...

Census commissioner rejects allegations of misrepresentation of figures before Senate

ISLAMABAD: In his appearance before a full house of Senate on Friday, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa rejected all allegations...

Half of Karachi’s population not counted in census: MQM-P

Sattar rejects census, says ‘our representation has been halved; soon our water and other facilities will also be halved’ Warns if their demands...

MQM-P to hold protest rally against census results in Karachi today

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leadership will be addressing a rally to protest against the provisional census results at Liaquatabad flyover here in...

Zahid, Khursheed discuss census, delimitation issues

ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Zahid Hamid called on National Assembly Opposition Leader on Thursday to seek Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) help on the matters related...

Formulas for reallocation of NA seats to be presented to cabinet

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has prepared three formulas that it will present to the federal cabinet for new delimitation of constituencies...

Don’t we count? Transgender Pakistanis feel sidelined by census

LAHORE: When Pakistani census officials came to the home of Aisha, a 27-year-old transgender woman in Lahore, she was marked down on their documents...

Moot demands ‘random census drive’ to recheck census accuracy in Karachi

KARACHI: While noting that initial census results didn’t at all report Karachi’s population accurately, concerned speakers of a panel discussion demanded that a random census...

KP demands due share of NFC Award

Warns to file petition in Supreme Court over undue delay Share should be increased after new census: KP finance minister PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on...

FATA residents reject census results, term them biased, irrational

ISLAMABAD: The recently-released statistics by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics pertaining to the population of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have shocked the...