Bureau Report
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan raising objection to the federal cabinet’s Dec 22 decision of approving the 6th National Census-2017.
He stated, “That in Pursuance of Part II of the Federal Legislative List, Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Census Results of 2017 have been pending approval of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) since the year 2017.”
“In this regard, the Summary moved by the Ministry of Statistics, Government of Pakistan dated 09.11.2017 was deliberated upon at the CCI which through its decision dated 13.11.2017 had directed that before compilation of the final results, third party validation of 1% census blocks in each Province should take place.”
Later on November 24, 2011, Murad said the CCI decided to further enhance the sampling proportion from one per cent to five per cent in each province.
This decision of third party validation was made in light of the agreement reached by parliamentary parties which led to the passage of 24th constitutional amendment allowing for the 2018 general elections to be held on the basis of provisional census results, he added.
He said the matter of finalising the census results remained pending since March, 2018.
