Magsi urges CM to boycott census over centre's refusal to address Sindh's reservations.

HYDERABAD -- Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that Pakistan Peoples Party's multi-party conference failed to address their fears on digital census and advised Sindh chief minister to announce boycott of the census exercise over federal government's refusal to address the province's objections.

He said at a meet the press programme here on Saturday that the government should abide by international law on census while conducting digital census in Sindh, which was, as he saw it, a conspiracy to convert Sindhis into minority in their own land.

He said that international census law ensured that nations should be counted on parity basis and the exercise was carried out to provide civic amenities to people and not to give immigrants a status equal to that of natives.

He said that census would not be accepted unless their reservations were redressed. Millions of Afghanis, Burmese, Bengalis and Biharis were living in Sindh who should be separated from the census and residents of other provinces staying in the province should be counted separately in the census forms, he said.

He urged all Sindh friendly parties and nationalist forces to take a clear and unified...