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.
I m sooooo glad…..to see these all activities …………..because these development will endorse to increase our country beauty & only by these development we can improve our nation image…… I know including me every patriotic national of Pakistan want to see a better & improved country …… so we have to endorse these investment …by that unemployment ratio automatically will be decreased & every one Pakistani will be wanted to serve in one of companies of Pakistan no one will be wanted to move Uk..Usa ,,,,,,& etc. Now dudes we mean youth of Pakistan can protect & raise nation image .. I know we can do itGod is always with usTake Care
* We need it bad and we had it ! :p
All we need is to appreciate such incredible advancements !
May this mega project have a lucrative end !
This is a wonderful Idea. I think it wiill increase Pakistan’s foreign reserve and also increase the tourist rate in Pakistan.I think we should always think +ive.
This is a very shamefull for all of our Leaders and politicians and for us also..
A common man is dying because of the rising prices of Rice,Sugar.floor and other common utilties..and These people are wanted to have 7 and 5 stars hotels in their town..
This is totally embaricing..
Any further progress on this project?
We dont need a seven star hotel. I really feel shame for those people who go and sit in those telephonic Addresses (khitab) from politicians who ran away and some of them not even have a pakistani citizenship and still a integeral part of pakistani politics.
The only thing I can see coming good out by Building a seven star hotel is that will create jobs and that will some how uplift the living standard of common people.
thanks
As construction activities boost your economy so I think its a good step for the economy of Pakistan, moreover people will get employment and around 40 other industries would flourish which are related directly or indirectly with the construction industry of Pakistan.
Atleast this is private money. The most egregious wastage of public money is the new GHQ in Islamabad. I hope the the SC or the new parliament will put a stop to the construtction of the new GHQ on 2500 acres of land (Pentagon in comparison is built on 250 acres).