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Four Pakistan Army soldiers, two civilians slain in Lahore suicide blast
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Apr.5 (ANI): Four Pakistan Army soldiers and two civilians lost their lives in a suicide blast targeting a census team in Lahore's Bedian Road area on Wednesday.
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Two Indian arrested during census exercise in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Mar. 31 (ANI): Two Indians have reportedly been arrested for living illegally in Karachi, during the 6th population and housing census in Pakistan.
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Pakistan's Sikh community upset for being 'left out' of nat
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 19 (ANI): Expressing disappointment at being 'left out' of the national census, the Sikh community in Peshawar has said that they fear their community would not be adequately represented in Pakistan's first national headcount in 19 years.
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Sikhs plan protest over omission of their religion in Pak census
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Mar. 18 (ANI): Outraged over their omission from the census, the Sikh community of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is planning to stage a protest in the federal capital with protests already under way in different districts of the province.
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Pak Army gets judicial powers for census
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 15 (ANI): As the first phase population census began today in Pakistan, the Interior Ministry has given the army judicial powers to hand down on-the-spot verdicts against those who refuse to cooperate or give false information.
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Pak to conduct first census in 19 years
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan, Mar. 13 (ANI): After a hiatus of 19 years, the Pakistani Government will be conducting the sixth housing and population census beginning March 15.
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Pak to deploy 2,00,000 troops for census
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 28 (ANI): Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has authorised the deployment of up to 2,00,000 troops to support the national population census.
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In a first, Pakistan to include Transgenders in national census
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 10 (ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that the transgender community should be included in the national population census.
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Sixth census in Pakistan unlikely to take off
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 27 (ANI): The long-awaited sixth population and housing census in Pakistan is unlikely to take off, as the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has not been able to come out with a concrete time frame for conducting it.
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Pak SC asks Sharif government to give specific date for census
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct.19 (ANI): Pakistan's Supreme Court has asked the Nawaz Sharif-led federal government to convince it that it is willing to conduct a census in March 2017.
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Arunachal BJP leader's son abducted by ULFA released
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Nampong (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], Sept. 9 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ratnaswer Moran's son, who was abducted by the ULFA militants on August 1, was on Friday released in Nampong, a census town in the state's Changlang district.
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Child Sex Ratio set to fall to a little over 800 girls per 1,000 boys in U
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 22 (ANI): A study conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has found that child sex ratio i.e. number of girls per 1000 boys is all set to fall drastically to a little over 800 by 2021 census.
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