ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition Khursheed Shah on Saturday raised reservations over the provisional report of the population census and said the records of the Statistics Division and the Pakistan Army should be compared. 

Shah said the facts would come to the forefront once the two census records are compared.

The opposition leader also demanded that the tenure of assemblies should be reduced to four years.  

Pakistan's total population has been recorded at 207.774 million, according to the provisional summary results of the sixth population and housing census.

The sixth Housing and Population Census began after a period of 19 years on March 15. The census was conducted in 16 districts of Punjab, eight districts of Sindh, 14 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15 districts of Balochistan, five districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and five districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.