Three days insufficient for house census in Karachi: Mustafa Kamal

• Kamal said Karachi provided 70% of revenue even in worse conditions
• MQM-P leader encouraged the people to get themselves counted.
• He said the government officials would start coming from March 3,

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and former Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Mustafa Kamal on Monday said three days’ time was insufficient for house census in Karachi, Bol News reported.

Addressing a media briefing in Karachi, Mustafa Kamal said Karachi provided 70 per cent of revenue even in the worse economic conditions. “We have flats system in the city and the entire flat is mentioned as one house,” he said.

He also said that there was no solution to the question in the documents that where the person who counts himself in the city and village separately would be counted.

The MQM-P leader encouraged the people to get themselves counted. He said the government officials would start coming from March 3, so you should help them and guide around your neighbourhood.

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He said census was not as big an issue anywhere else in the country. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) could not resolve the economic issue, he added.

Mustafa Kamal said no dishonesty should be committed in the census this time. He said in the past seven people were counted where 2,000 people lived. In many areas of Karachi population was depicted less, he said adding that the megalopolis had the largest population in the country.

He also requested the authorities to extend the date of self-enumeration. He said the census was taking place five years earlier on demand of the MQM.

On February 3, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-P (MQM-P) had appointed Mustafa Kamal, Farooq Sattar and Nasreen Jalil as the senior deputy conveners and Anis Qaimkhani as deputy convener of the party, Bol News reported.

The MQM-P had issued a circular in this regard.

On January 17, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-P (MQM-P) leader Wasim Akhtar had blamed the Election Commission of Pakistan and Sindh government of pre-poll rigging in the local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad.