Karachi: Pasban-e-Pakistan President, Altaf Shakoor has rejected the results of the national census of 2017 regarding Karachi and termed the result as technically incorrect.
In a statement here Sunday, he questioned that why the Karachi-based politicians are silent over this sensitive issue. Once again the rights of the masses of Karachi have been sold, he asked.
He said the growth rate of Karachi has shown less than the population growth of other areas of the country despite huge influx of the jobseekers, who come and settle in Karachi.
He said as per the initial results, the population of the country is shown as 210 million. The population of Karachi is shown as 10. 70 million, while the population of Lahore as 10.20 million, despite the fact that Karachi is several times larger as compared to Lahore.
Published in Daily Times, August 211st 2017.
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