Jamaat-e-Islami City Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has said that a strong Karachi will be a message of change throughout Sindh. He demanded of the government for conducting fresh and transparent Census in the metropolis. Addressing at the Press Club here on Thursday, he said the population of Karachi has been kept at 14 million and that of District Council at 11 million. “The census is said to have been monitored by the army. Was it the responsibility of the army to maintain law and order or to make the population from two and a half crores to one and a half crores?” He stressed that the ISPR should also clarify this Naeemur Rehman said everyone is counted in the census because he lives in the city and uses everything. “And now instead of 30 million people, a package of Rs 11 billion is being given in the name of 1.5 crore people.” He regretted that first JICA was chased away, now KCR is included in CPEC, its completion doesn’t seem possible to complete it. The JI Karachi chief said that landlords and chiefs in Sindh say it would not be good if there was a vote against them in the elections, adding if Karachi’s population is counted correctly, the number of seats in the National Assembly will increase. “We have to break the feudal system. Representation and resource system should be based on population He asserted that there should be an empowered city government in Karachi and the Sindh government should return all the institutions taken by it under amendment in laws. “Nematullah Khan had a comprehensive plan for the islands near Karachi.’ He said the island’s secret agenda must come to light, asking, “ Who is to be contracted there?
