ISLAMABAD: After overruling its objections, the Supreme Court has ordered the registrar’s office to fix before the court a petition of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) in which the party has questioned the results of 2017 census.
While hearing an appeal in his chambers, Justice Mushir Alam ordered the registrar’s office to fix the matter in due course of time. The office had earlier returned the petition with objections.
Moved through president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association Salahuddin Ahmed on Oct 22 last year on behalf of MQM’s convenor Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other leaders like Amir Khan, Kanwar Naveed Jamil, Waseem Akhtar, Faisal Sabzwari, Hamidul Zafar and Muhammad Jawed Hanif Khan, the joint petition had pleaded for conduct of a fresh and transparent census in Sindh, especially its urban centres such as Karachi and Hyderabad.