The Jamaat-e-Islami wants the census authorities to count each and every resident of Karachi at their actual residence.The Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami Emir, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, said this on Saturday.
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) wants the census authorities to count each and every resident of Karachi at their actual residence. The Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, said this on Saturday as he addressed a press conference after his return from Islamabad where the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics had hosted a briefing for political leaders about the census.
Rehman had also met Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal during his Islamabad visit to discuss the census issues. The minister informed him in the meeting that the census period would be extended for another 15 days.
At the press conference on Saturday, the JI leader said the party was all set to hold a march against the fraud census today (Sunday) on Sharea Faisal.
He said the future of the megacity was associated with a transparent and crystal clear census process as the badly needed resources to develop the city would be distributed on the basis of the population.
He said that the share in the National Finance Commission award heavily relied on the population and if the population of Karachi was understated, it would simply translate into Karachi not getting its due rights and share in resources. Similarly, he said that representation of a particular area in the national and provincial assemblies also depended upon its population. Due to this, he maintained, the population of Karachi was deliberately understated to ensure a monopoly of feudal lords in the provincial assembly of Sindh. The JI leader claimed that if Karachi’s population was counted accurately.
