Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday authorised the deployment of upto 200,000 troops to support the often delayed national population census, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The troops will be deployed while continuing other security responsibilities, added the ISPR statement.
The population census will yield statistics about internal migration, urbanisation, as well as rural and urban population across the country.
The population data will be used for delimitation of the constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies, a requirement under the constitution