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Population census to begin with house-listing operation

By our correspondents
March 12, 2017

ISLAMABAD: All arrangements have been completed for the month-long census drive across the country, beginning from Wednesday.

Radio Pakistan quoting official sources said that the national population census will commence with house-listing operation. About two hundred thousand personnel of Pakistan Army and 91,000 civilian enumerators will participate in the drive.

During the drive, special attention will be paid to internally displaced persons. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has made arrangements to obtain the required data relating to IDPs from Nadra and Fata Secretariat.