Pakistan census will include transgenders for first time
Chief statistician of the PBS clarified that all the citizens would be enlisted in the census, whether they had the NIC or not.
Islamabad: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has said that all the citizens, including transgender persons, would be enlisted in the sixth national population Census.
Chief statistician of PBS and chief Census commissioner Asif Bajwa, while addressing a news conference here, said that for the first time in the country’s history, transgender persons would be included in the Census form.
“We have introduced a category in the Census forms to distinguish the Pakistani nationals and foreigners,” he said.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Syed Naveed Qamar the other day had raised concerns in the National Assembly that citizens without National Identity Card would not be allowed to enlist in the Census. However, chief statistician of the PBS clarified that all the citizens would be enlisted in the census, whether they had the NIC or not.
He said that all Pakistanis living abroad for the last six months would not be enlisted in the census. Mr Bajwa said that foreigners living in Pakistan for the last six months would be included in the Census process.
Pakistan is going to conduct new census after 19 years as the last time it was conducted in 1998.