Punjab has become the first province in the country to digitally map the health and demographic profiles of its citizens, with the province’s first and largest-ever digital health census nearing completion under Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s Community Health Inspectors Programme. More than 85 percent of the population in 18 districts has been covered through […]
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Seventh census postponed for three months
The government decided to postpone the seventh population and housing Census for three months. Following the decision, the fieldwork for the collection of data from 180,000 census blocks all over the country — which was earlier scheduled for this month — will be started on February 1, 2023, and completed by March 4, 2023. The […]
Govt to hold census for first time in history with 5 years’ gap: Asad Umar
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Tuesday said the government was going to hold population census for the first time in Pakistan history with a gap of only five years. In a tweet, the minister said the cabinet had given the approval for holding a census using modern digital technology and […]
How can 2017 census be approved without addressing Sindh’s concerns, asks Sherry Rehman
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the cabinet’s decision to approve the 2017 census, PPP Parliamentary Leader in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman said, “According to a UNICEF survey, the average members of a household are at 7.2 for Sindh, whereas the census results put the number of the average household at 5.64. Similarly, Sindh’s population should be over […]
Trump: ‘Sad time’ after controversial 2020 census change abandoned
President Donald Trump said Tuesday it was a “very sad time” after the US government gave up a controversial attempt to put a question about citizenship on next year’s census. The decision, announced earlier in the day, handed a victory to those who argued the new item would lead to discrimination against minority residents. It […]
Cows come home to haunt India’s Modi
One of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature policies has been protecting cows, but for Raghuvir Singh Meena — a Hindu farmer struggling to protect his crop of chickpeas from roaming cattle — it has gone too far. Farmers overwhelmingly supported Modi’s nationalist party when he swept to power in 2014 but the strict measures […]