{"id":28937,"date":"2017-11-05T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28937"},"modified":"2017-11-05T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T07:23:32","slug":"mqm-p-to-hold-rally-against-census-results-in-karachi-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28937","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P to hold rally against census results in Karachi today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI Nov 05 (TNS):<\/strong> The workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) were preparing Sunday morning for the protest rally at Liaquatabad flyover against the provisional census results, invitations for which were distributed by the\u00a0top leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>MQM-P chief Farooq Sattar went to Jama Cloth Market to distribute the invitations for the\u00a0rally, where he said 500 union committees would be formed once the census results are corrected.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader in Sindh Assembly, Khawaja Izharul Hassan, along with another leader of MQM-P, Kanwar Naveed, invited people from different areas of the\u00a0central district to the rally.<\/p>\n<p>The party leaders, including Rauf Siddiqui and Kamran Tessori, also visited the rally site to examine preparations.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit Naveed spoke to the media, saying it was unfair to undercount the population of Karachi in the latest census.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement for the\u00a0protest was made by MQM-P chief, according to whom the census was rigged to reduce employment opportunities for the people of Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>He had said that Karachi&#8217;s population in actual is around 30 million, whereas according to the census it is 10.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s total population has been recorded at 207.774 million, according to the provisional summary results of the sixth population and housing census.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth Housing and Population Census began after a period of 19 years on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI Nov 05 (TNS): The workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) were preparing Sunday morning for the protest rally at Liaquatabad flyover against the provisional census results, invitations for which were distributed by the\u00a0top leadership of the party. MQM-P chief Farooq Sattar went to Jama Cloth Market to distribute the invitations for the\u00a0rally, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-28937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28939,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions\/28939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}