HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo has said that if Sindh`s population is shown less than 33 or 35 per cent as a result of the ongoing census it would be a great injustice to the province and people will not accept it.

There was great influx of population in Karachi and other districts of Sindh from other parts of the country, therefore, Nawaz Sharif, Chaudhry Nisar, Ishaq Dar and other federal government functionaries should not be scared of an increase in the population figures of the province, he said.

Mr Palijo was talking to party workers and candidates of competitive examinations of the Sindh Public Service Commission here on Wednesday.He said the lists of blocks were compiled in 2009 which had less than the actual number of houses. If the government had collected fresh data with the help of revenue department and made new maps of localities, it could have easily ensured transparency in the census, he said.

He said the enumerators were given old lists of blocks in which 150-200 houses were mentione d while there were now 600 to 1,200 houses in a block which could not be counted within three days.

He said that complaints were received from Karachi, Ghotki and Hyderabad that actual number of houses had not been counted. There were also complaints that Ismaili, Memon and Bohri communities were being forced in the areas of Garden, Keamari and I.I. Chundrigar Road in Karachi to mention Urdu as their mother language, he said.He said that withholding of district-wise results of the census and their belated disclosure showed the federal government wanted to obtain `desired results` in the census.

Sindh chief minister and Sindh Assembly members should play a proactive role in the census exercise, he said.

Belated announcement of census results to create suspicions, says PPP PPP Hyderabad division president Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi has said the government`s plan to announce census results after three months strengthens suspicions that census numbers may be manipulated during that time.

He said at a press conference at his residence on Wednesday that PPP leadership would be informed about the assistant com-missioners who had compiled `wrong` data of blocks of houses.

He said the field staff did not reach on time for house count in many areas which showed that three days would be insufficient for the exercise.

PPP Hyderabad district president Saghir Qureshi said that activists of a political party were found to be with the field staff of census in Gari Khata, which was inappropriate.

Teams had arrived in the area late and lef t early, he said, adding that complaints would be made against the assistant commissioners who did not give accurate number of houses in blocks.

PPP leader All Mohammad Sahto said that committees had been formed in 1,600 blocks and party activists had been appointed as focal persons. They would inform the leadership about any wrongdoing in the census.