The government wishes to address the PPP’s concerns on the census.
Today, the Chief Statistician of PBS will meet with the Chief Minister of Sindh to discuss removing reservations.

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided that Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah will meet with Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Chief Statistician Dr. Naeem Uz Zafar and his technical team on Wednesday (today) to address the concerns raised by the PPP, a significant coalition partner, regarding the digital census.
The choice was reached on Tuesday during a meeting of the 7th Census Monitoring Committee, headed over by Federal Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal, to assess the status of the nation’s first digital census.
The chief minister of Sindh, the chief secretaries of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan, as well as the chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and the head of PBS, were among the other attendees of the huddle.
The planning minister promised that the government will consult with all the provinces over the census and that whatever worries Sindh had would be addressed right away.
The planning minister’s efforts to address the reservations in his province were commended by the chief minister of Sindh.
The meeting’s attendees were given an update on the census-related operations by the PBS head statistician.
It was decided that the Census Monitoring Committee will meet once a week in order to improve cooperation and swiftly address all issues.
The next general elections would be based on the new census, according to planning minister Iqbal, but some miscreants sought to sabotage the process.
It is our duty to concentrate on this activity by making sure it is transparent and accurate, the speaker stated.
The minister went on to explain how the digital census would affect Pakistan’s future.
I will not compromise on its transparency, and I cannot afford any sort of controversy, he continued.
The federal government, according to the minister, is providing all resources necessary to complete the process because it is an issue of national importance.
He had already established an April 30, 2023 timetable for the census’ completion since, following the exercise, the ECP would need four months to delineate new electoral districts.
The PPP chairman and foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari recently referred to the digital census as a “flawed” process.
The rights of the people would not be “snatched,” he continued, because the Sindh government was mandated to protect them.
The equitable allocation of resources across the provinces was another major goal of the census, according to Bilawal, who added that any “wrong measures” in this area would not be accepted.
Subsequently, his father, PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, cautioned the media in Vehari that if the PPP’s concerns about the census were not addressed, it might not remain a part of the federal cabinet.
The Sindh Assembly had passed a resolution the day before that expressed grave reservations about the digital census.
It asked that the self-enumeration date, the time frame for listing homes, and the head count all be extended.
The resolution’s proposer, Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro, complained that the ongoing digital census had not received enough media attention and publicity.
“The people of Sindh were also kept in the dark regarding the outcome of the pilot census, which was performed in July 2022,” he added.
The resolution stated that throughout the current exercise, the relevant authorities were hesitant to respond to the Sindh government’s request for access to the data set in a proper manner.
The quality and amount of the enumeration are seriously questioned because the dashboard is also inoperable, it continued.