KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced to run a campaign against the undercount in the Karachi census after Eid. As per details, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aftab Siddique said that PTI rejects the results of the census in Karachi. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had reservations about the 2017 census but the results of the recent census in Karachi show a further decrease in the population. The PTI leader also lambasted Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P), saying that MQM is also to be blamed for the mismanaged Karachi census. The MQM-P leader Mustafa Kamal claimed that census is over the redline and this hashtag was top trending for more than a month. He said that despite staying in the government they did not compromise on the welfare of the people. Earlier, the Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal directed the constitution of a committee, comprising the Planning Secretary, Provincial Chief Secretaries and Chief Census Commissioner, to devise a mechanism and look into the matter of ‘undercount’ in big cities. The Planning Minister also directed convening a meeting of the Census Monitoring Committee for necessary deliberation to complete the task within the given timeframe. DNA
