KARACHI Rejecting the ongoing census and house count process, the nationalists parties of Sindh have given a strike call on April 30 across the province. They termed the process as an attempt to convert the Sindhi people into a minority, thus depriving them of their internationally acknowledged political and economic rights. This was decided at a meeting held at Hyder Manzil, the residence late nationalist leader GM Syed, here on Thursday. All the top leadership of the nationalist parties under the umbrella of newly formed Census Monitoring Committee in Sindh attended the meeting. Chief of Sindh United Party (SUP) Syed Jalal Shah, the grandson of late GM Syed and Convenor of Monitoring Committee, hosted the meeting, which was attended by were Bashir Khan Qureshi (JSQM), Syed Shah Muhammad Shah (Save Sindh Movement), Dr. Safdar Sarki (Jeay Sindh Tehreek), Ali Hassan Chandio (STP), Senator Dr. Khalid Mehmood Soomro (JUI-F) and others. Later, jointly speaking at a media briefing, the nationalists leaders unanimously rejected the ongoing census and house counting and alleged that an ethnic party has held hostage the census process in Karachi and Hyderabad. They said the uniform policy of selecting enumerators from the education department was not being followed and the employees of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, the Karachi city government and other departments were being engaged in urban localities. They said that many of the 1.5 million flood-affected families were still residing in temporary houses and were likely to be excluded from the count. They also demanded that millions of upcountry economic migrants be registered separately in the resident category of the Sindh population under the standard practice in many developed countries. They further said that over three million immigrants from India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma and other countries should be counted as illegal aliens without any citizenship and permanent residency rights in Sindh. They demanded that the National Database Registration Authority should cancel dubious computerised national identity cards issued to them. They said that there was an international conspiracy to convert the Sindhis majority into a minority in their homeland. They vowed that they would resist it and would not allow such conspiracy to succeed. The house counting process of the 2011 6th national census has become controversial in Sindh.