ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) will conduct the national population census in March this year after a gap of almost 18 years, its chief statistician said on Monday.
According to media reports, Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa unveiled the plan for the sixth population census. It was revealed that the census will be conducted in two phases simultaneously in all the four provinces.
Services of 45,000 security personnel will be sought for this exercise, said Bajwa.
Announcing the schedule of the first phase, Bajwa said that the first phase in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa will kick off from Peshawar and Mardan, while in Punjab, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Dera Ghazi Khan will be the first cities to be covered.
Two of the main cities in the Sindh province Karachi and Hyderabad are also to be covered in the first phase.
Islamabad will be one of the first cities where the census will conducted in the first phase.
In the second phase, census will be conducted in Azad Jammu Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), said Bajwa.
So far, five censuses have earlier been carried out in 1951, 1961, 1972, 1981 and the last in 1998. It should be carried out after every 10 years as per the Constitution. However, it was not done in the last 18 years.
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