Daily Times

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former Punjab governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has demanded immediate census to resolve the problems faced by the country. “New elections should be held according to new census,” he stressed while addressing the workers convention on Friday. The PTI leader said elections without census would be tantamount to robbery on the rights of voters, adding that PML-N was creating hindrance in way of census, as they do not want to give the people their due rights. “We demand the Supreme Court of Pakistan to issue immediate orders of holding census in the country,” he added. Sarwar said that the Punjab government was not interested in transferring powers to grassroots level, as one-man-show was going on in the province. He accused the rulers of having no vision for the country, saying that the government was only focused on passing its tenure instead of mitigating the genuine problems of the people. He demanded census before the upcoming elections so that real count of population and its problems could be obtained. “Several months have been passed since the local bodies’ elections, but the Punjab government was not ready to devolve powers, which is against the spirit of democracy and PTI condemns it,” he said, adding that basic problems of people would be solved at their doorsteps if local bodies get empowered, otherwise people would face heinous consequences, as the rulers like to remain oblivious of their problems.