I just read this in the news. Daily Times has reported the inauguration of The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, in Islamabad.
I am left wondering what are these people thinking? Can Pakistan afford, and sustain, a 7-star hotel? Do we really need one? And what is a 7-star hotel, after all? We can barely maintain a decent 2 or 3 star hotel in our major cities. Are we now competing with Dubai for architectural grandiosity? And whoever came up with the name should probably look for a job in Hollywood…
ISLAMABAD: The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, was inaugurated on Thursday. The $350 million complex is planned to have a 37-storey deluxe hotel, with two 21-storey residential towers, a 25-storey corporate office complex, and a 5-storey shopping mall. The complex will have a parking lot that would accommodate over 2,000 vehicles. The project will be completed in three years… The Pak Gulf Construction Private Limited company (PGCL) and Messrs Atkins engineering company – the constructors of Dubai’s renowned Burj Al Arab – are executing the project. Saudi Arabian Al-Tamimi Group and the Sardar Group of Companies are making the investment….
President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said it was “the right time to invest in Pakistan� because of the country’s positive economic policies of de-regulation, liberalisation and privatisation coupled with a liberal foreign exchange regimen. “We have opened all sectors of the economy for investment and the scourge of red-tapism and bureaucratic delays are being done away with,� said the president at the foundation-laying ceremony of The Centaurus.
YES. Thats exactly what we need…. a 7 star hotel for a 7 star country…. we are, after all, so teeming with wealth that mere 5 stars will no longer do…. everyone is so rich that we NEED 7 stars….. !!!!!!
ASSALAM O ALIKUM
I think 7 star hotel is positive indicator for improve our standards..this project attract more investors to pakistan.In future large numbers of visitors come in pakistan. this project is also healthful for our northen areas.
regards
ALI KHAN
Also in Islamabad, someone from sindh burns himself in front of the Supreme court here
No one cares in this cold city anymore.
Looks like Islamabad is becoming the Sin city. Not the innocent place I used to know.
An interesting note in BBC Urdu. It is in urdu text, though: here
“Hum dekhain gay……”
If they won’t look at them through the revolving restaurant’s windows, they’ll look at them through the windows of a Land Rover…nothing you can do about that.
Just saw the video in the new post on children in Pakistan. Made me think.
Sure, there is nothing illegal in a private company spending its money as it wants to. Nothing immoral or inappropriate. They can do whatever they want. But is it right? What does it say about our national priorities. I guess once you are sitting on top of that revolving resturant, the child in the video is far below in the dust for you even to see!
Yes, there is nothing wrong with this at all. But it does not seem terribly right either.