Staff Reporter
Karachi
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-P, (MQM-P) has said that his party still has reservations regarding the last national census, in which Sindh’s population was deliberately underreported.
Talking to media in Karachi, he said that if there was no engineering in the 2018 elections, all votes would have been cast for MQM. He also clarified that MQM is not being used, otherwise it would not have been talking to the media.
The MQM-P leader said that they are going to engage the public on the issue of census results. Meanwhile, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Friday said that the 2023 elections will be held in accordance with the results of a new census. He said that the issue regarding MQM’s protest is that local body elections are near and a census cannot be held in just one month. However, he noted that MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui’s demand for a census in urban areas is legitimate.
