The results of the sixth population census and Pakistani housing were delayed after several provinces, including Sindh and Balochistan marked the Undercounting problem.
Religious minorities in Pakistan accused the government did not pick them up in the latest census data published in May, four years after the survey was conducted. The survey for the sixth population and housing census was carried out under former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and finished in 2017. However, the results were postponed after several provinces, including Sindh and Balochistan marked the Undercounting problem.
The Pakistani Statistics Bureau published the sixth population data and housing census after the approval of the constitutional body that resolved the power sharing dispute between the provincial and federal governments. While Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan gave up under pressure from the Government Imran Khan, Sindh continued to improve objections to the data census.
According to the 2017 census data, the overall population of Pakistan has grown to 207.68 million, an increase of around 75 million since 1998 when the country recorded 132.3 million people. The census shows that Muslim populations in Pakistan grow 96.47% while other religious minority populations report growth that can be ignored and even shrink in some cases.
Hindus in Pakistan contributed 1.73% of the total population while Christians redeem 1.27% of Pakistani residents. Other minorities such as Ahmaddiyas contributed less than 0.1% of the Pakistani population. Supreme Court lawyer Karachi Neel Keshav claims that the Hindu population in Pakistan is likely to be much higher, report Pakistan at this time.
“Census data in 1998 showed a Hindu population of nearly 2 million. But the new census showed that it only rose 3.5 million in 20 years,” Pakistani Daily Daily said.
Human rights groups have often raised concerns over the conditions of religious minorities in Pakistan. The Pakistani Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said in the 2019 report that the Hindu and Christian community in Sindh and Punjab continued to report forced repentance cases.
“Even though Christians have migrated abroad and repent to Islam, our church records make us suspect that Christians may have been less understood by at least half a million. We struggle to find accurate data, and somehow the government does not help. Investigate, “Pakistan today was quoted by the center of Director of Social Justice Peter Jacob.