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.
wow! all this for one silly hotel? I live in Sanfrancisco and I dont give another turn to a
high rise that have I just passed. First educate common people , teach them manners, teach them how to make a line and wait for their turn.I get so frustrated everytime I visit karachi and cannot wait to get out.Think of these travellers who would come and spent so much money and time to visit. Would they ever come back?
What’s wrong in Pakistan having a 7 star hotel.
why can’t we Pakistanis be ever proud of something unique, why can’t we look forward into future and stop criticising each other.
I felt really proud that a mega million project is under construction and that Pakistan would be on the world map atleast for some good reason rather that being on the websites , news rounds and world media for all the bad reasons that its citizens indulge or get involved in.
Building such a big hotel would definitely have great impact on our tourism and our economy.
We want people to see our country to come to us and to visit us rather than shun our pakland and go sumwhere else.
Pakistan is a beautiful country gifted with all the essential euipments and elements which a country needs to boast of, the only other thing it needs is due respect and sense of pride, personal integrity and responsibility from within its own people but alas, we pakistanis have lost that ages ago.
Let this project complete peacefully and let us celebrate the march of pakistan and pakistanis towards sustainable economic growth in the future INSHALLAH. Let this be the first step towards it.
Dr.M.N.Ali
alamzeb@thecentaurus.com
Hi all, I wonder why you people are soooo narrow minded and leg puller, rather than appreciating something, you always try to discourage people, you are the one, who dont do something, but if some one does, you just start barking negativelly to satisify yourself, that I am not doing something, I am fine. What the hell do you know about the Muslim History?? look at our civilisation, it was we who taught the world about Civilisation, look at our historly in Spain, we were the best architects, look in Uthman Empire, the west learnt Fort Building from us in The Crusades, we taught the world Calculus, which is the the mother of construction and architect now a days.
why are you people in Inferiority complex??? why??? what can’t we have 7 star hotel in Islamabad??? go to UK and look at the situation of London Security, look at the situation of world famous cities, we are much better than them. There are very influential people in Pakistan, but these Polititians, the Disgraced Pakistan Army of 1971, and people like these who wrote this article is busy in leg pulling.
Open up your minds and grow up, just fine WHO YOU ARE, YOU ARE MUSLIMS, this world is made for us, make it beautiful and do something for your nation, because YOU GOT ONE LIFE, dont waste it in bullshits, which I have seen above..
I am not saying because I am the part of this Project, I am saying because luckily I got Spirtual leaders in my college days, which showed me what Inferiority complex is and what we are.
Yes We Will see Offcourse yaar there should be a 7 star hotel in Pakistan but ……………………….
@ MSK: “All of us Pakistanis are always interested in India their movies, their call centers, their music, their cricket�
I categorically refute your statement. Being a Pakistani, I haven’t watched an Indian film in many months, haven’t ever dealt with any Indian call centres (though I have read about Dell customers complaining about accent issues and lack of knowledge in customer support staff) and have absolutely no interest in Indian cricket team unless they are in a match against Pakistan.
MAN i am very happy for this 7 star hotel…we really need it in pak not only in Isb but in all major cities of PAK… we must need to develop the Pak. now.Every Investment create JOB oppurtunity and make contribution in the economy so we should support all investments in PAK…
I am not sure why people have such negative sentiments about this about to be built 7 star hotel? There are rich and poor everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that until and unless the poor people are uplifted - we should halt everything else in parallel!
Malik, in reference to Arabs (Dubai?) and building useless things based on petro dollars, I would like to highlight the fact that Dubai atleast is not a petro-dollar based economy nor they are building “useless” things. If you study Dubai economy and their future plans, it will make all the sense and answer many questions.
Those wild and crazy arabs, they really know how to spend on useless things! Except they don’t have even a half decent university anywhere. Would not an investment on education, science, museums, cultural developemnt programs etc etc from these petro-dollar rich plutocrats have a far greater and longer-lived impact?