The Pakistan People’s Party has declared the process of delimitation and local government elections in Sindh as unconstitutional. He was addressing a presser along with ex- Senator Taj Hiader and CM Sindh’s Special Assistant Waqar Mehdi on Wednesday. President PPP Sindh chapter Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said in a statement that in 2017 Census the population of the province was estimated below par and the objections over the population results still persist. He said that letters have been written to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) over the matter. “All political parties had consented to participate in general elections in 2018 with reservations over the ad-hoc results of the census,” Khuhro said. Delimitation process and the local government elections in province will be unconstitutional without announcement of the final statistics of the population census, PPP leader said. The authorities have failed to conduct five percent random checking of the census, which was agreed upon at that time. “We have written three letters to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) over delimitation process and yet to receive the final report of the population census,” Khuhro said. Sindh government is unable to hold the next local government elections in the province till the time it is provided with the final results of the population census, he added. Khuhro said the provincial assembly has the power to amend the law to improve the local government system. “Under dictator Musharraf, the law on local government was not amended.” The NFC should come out with the final census list but it was not doing so, he said adding instead there was also talk of a presidential system in the country. The PPP leader said that the solution to all the problems in the country is the continuation of the democratic parliamentary system. He assured that the appointment of administrators in Sindh will be made soon.
