Census anomaly.

THE federal government has initiated the process of digital census and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has launched a digital portal where people may submit their data as part of the self-enumeration phase.

This is a good initiative to speed up the census process. However, when I tried to register myself, I found that it is not possible since the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) system is specific to the territory comprising the present-day Pakistan.

The Nadra database does not recognise that from 1947 till 1971 there used to be a part of this country, called the East Pakistan. My late father, belonging to Chakwal district, was posted in East Pakistan, where I was born at Rajshahi in 1964.

According to the Nadra database, I was born in 'Bangladesh' when the fact is that there was no such country...