HYDERABAD: The Sindh Progressive Committee (SPC) which met here on Friday demanded release of block-wise and union council-wise figures of census and of immigrants living in Sindh and that those who had settled in Sindh from other provinces should be counted separately; they should not be given the right to vote and right to purchase property in Sindh.

The meeting chaired by Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Junejo) chairman Abdul Khalique Junejo was attended by the Awami Workers Party senior vice president Yousuf Masti Khan, Communist Party secretary general Imdad Qazi and Awami Jamhoori Party president Amanullah Shaikh and others.

The meeting participants discussed provisional results of the sixth census and observed that the SPC had expressed reservations over census initially and all its fears now proved correct.

It said that the SPC had demanded that the results of each and every block should be disclosed on the pattern of the general elections because if this was not done, then everyone would raise objections over those figures.

The meeting participants noted that the second major demand of the SPC pertaine d to separate counting of temporary residents of Sindh from those who were permanent residents and in the census results no explanation was made to this effect.

It said that people in rural areas in general and Thar and Kohistan in particular remained uncounted because they either did not have national identity cards or they were doing jobs in other cities.

The meeting participants demanded that all illegal immigrants should be expelled from Sindh and expenditure incurred on the stay of the people from other parts of the country in Sindh should be borne by the federal government.

The meeting criticised the Sindh government `for not taking timely constitutional and legal measures to protect Sindhi people in census`.