Khuhro urges Centre to address Sindh's reservations over digital census.

LARKANA -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh president and Senator Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has urged the federal government to address the reservations voiced by his party and the provincial government regarding the ongoing digital census.

According to him, it is high time that the flaws and loopholes pinpointed be rectified.

'Our stand is crystal clear that the census exercise must be carried out on de facto basis as everyone present in the province should be counted, even a child of one hour,' he said while addressing party workers at his residence here on Sunday.

'The CNIC in the process is a must along with a separate box in the census form to enter the aliens. With the separate box in the form, we could have aliens' data with us as Sindh has already reservations on the presence of outsiders in the province,' Mr Khuhro said.

When the CNIC was mandatory in exercising the right of franchise then why not in making entry in the census, he said. In case of unavailability of the CNIC, the B-form of Nadra should be made the basis of enumeration process, he suggested.

He said that a big number of people dislocated and migrated in the recent unprecedented flood and rains should also be enumerated on the basis of Nadra's data and the very data must be shared with Sindh.

He said the party had decided to commemorate the 44th death anniversary of its founder and executed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on April 4 in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto.

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