Original sentence: Although there is no official statistics on the state of ethnic proportions in the province, it is claimed that there is a strong desire by the government to down-play Kurdish population and the Kurdish lands by political, religious and ethnical...etc reasons  But they never cliam kurds are minority in this province
Edited sentence: There is a strong desire by the government to down-play Kurdish population and the Kurdish lands by political, religious and ethnical...etc reasons  But they never cliam kurds are minority in this province