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.
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Nothing but another crap plan. Do you think 7 star hotel will run here?. We have’nt accepted 5 star hotel here in islamabad. Faced 3 suicide bombing in Marriot where elites were having fun.
This 7 star hotel would be nothing but another BIG BURDEN on the establishment to secure it. I dont see it getting constructed neither GHQ !
It is very good Idea for providing job to jobless pakistani, because, pakistani govt is failed to do this,.
How can 3 million additional Pakistanis can get employment just by building these 7-star hotels? I wonder if supporting such projects has anything to do with patriotism? Why do we have to drag patriotism into everything?
Someone rightly said:
“Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel.”
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