PTI, MQM-P comply with hold fresh census
KARACHI: Wooing its disgruntled ally that has recently expressed anger over the federal cabinet’s decision to approve the ‘controversial’ census, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has sent its high-powered delegation to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s headquarter to satisfy its leaders to assure that the govt will conduct a fresh census within the country before schedule.
A PTI delegation, headed by Governor Sindh Imran Ismail and Federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, visited the MQM-P’s headquarters to debate the “ongoing political situation, formulating a joint strategy between the coalition partners within the upcoming Senate polls and by-polls and other related affairs.”
However, within the meeting, the MQM-P leaders, led by convenor Dr Khalid Maqbool Sididiui and senior deputy convenor Amir Khan, raised the difficulty of conducting a fresh census.
In the meeting, a special committee headed by MQM-P leader and federal minister Syed Aminul Haque was also formed to compile the recommendations and sent it to the federal cabinet.
Firdous Shamim Naqvi, Haleem Adil Shaikh, Khurram Sherzaman, Bilal Ghaffar and Junaid Ali Shah from PTI and Kunwar Naveed Jamil, Faisal Sabzwari, Waseem Akhtar, Syed Aminul Haque, and Zahid Mansoori from MQM-P also participated within the meeting.
Talking to the media after the meeting, leaders of both parties said that that they had agreed on the choice to conduct a replacement census across the country.
“The MQM-P had formed a coalition with the federal on the idea of an agreement whose first point was review of the results of the 2017 census,” said Siddiqui. “And now both the parties agreed over conducting the census early.”
Siddqui said that not only residents of Sindh’s urban centers, including Karachi and Hyderabad, but also Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have shown their disapproval over the “controversial census.”
Criticizing opposition parties, Siddiqui said that they did not do anything on the difficulty of census. Without naming the party , MQM-P leader said that a celebration that has been in politics since 1970 had not protested over the rigging in census in 1970s and 1980s.
Federal minister Umar said that the Pakistan Mulsim League-Nawaz’s government conducted the census that raised the contentious questions.
The PTI leaders said that the federal had already notified a technical committee with the target to make sure subsequent census isn't only “accurate but also inspires confidence amongst all stakeholders.
“Census is a crucial issue during a country where the distribution of resources is predicated on the population,” he said.
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