MQM-P should quit ruling coalition if it has doubts over census, says PPP minister.

SUKKUR -- Sindh Minister for Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that if the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan sincerely believes census is marred by blunders then the party should immediately separate itself from the ruling coalition and resign from assemblies.

He told media persons at Sukkur airport on Sunday before leaving for Garhi Khuda Bakhsh that MQM-P was just playing politics and staging a farce over peoples' problems.

He said that Pakistan Peoples Party's stance on the census was clear. 'We will take up the issue in Council of Common Interests and also approach the court. We had made our reservations over the census results crystal clear since the first day the census was made public,' he said.

He said that if MQM-P had to stage protest over the issue then it should first tender resignations and then hold protest in Islamabad. There was no justification for holding protests against census in Karachi and against the Sindh government, he said.

He said that taking part in local bodies' polls as well as by-elections was part of politics but his party would take the course that was decided by PDM and PPP central executive committee.

Deputy chairman of Senate, Saleem Mandviwala, who was also at the airport, told journalists that the National Accountability Bureau had become a big hurdle to smooth functioning of bureaucracy. If the NAB did not improve its attitude the...