Islamabad:
Reeling below a monetary crunch, Pakistan Prime Minister’s official residence in Islamabad has been place on the market place for rent.
After the ruling Tehreek-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government announced in August 2019, its program to convert the Prime Minster’s House into a university, PM Imran Khan had vacated the residence. The federal government has now dropped the program and decided to alternatively rent out the house, Samaa Television reported.
The federal cabinet, which had earlier announced a state-of-the-art federal educational institution at the Prime Minister House has, according to sources cited by neighborhood media now decided to let people today to hold cultural, style, educational, and other events at the premises situated at the Red Zone, Islamabad.
“Two committees have been formed for this purpose. They will be responsible for ensuring the discipline and decorum of the PM House are not violated during the events,” Saama Television stated.
According to neighborhood media, the federal cabinet will meet and talk about approaches to garner income from the PM House developing.
The auditorium of the Prime Minister’s House, two guest wings, and a lawn can be rented out to create funds. High-level diplomatic functions, international seminars will also be held at the former principal workplace of the Pakistani premier.
Imran Khan immediately after taking more than as the country’s PM had announced that the Pakistan government does not have cash to invest on the public welfare schemes, though some in the nation are “living like our colonial masters used to live”. He has considering the fact that then been living at his Bani Gala residence and only makes use of the PM workplace.
Pakistan’s economy has shrunk by USD 19 billion in the last 3 years considering the fact that Mr Khan came to the energy. When he became the PM he took a lot of austerity methods to reduce down the government expenditures to give respite to the country’s economy.
Earlier, former finance minister Miftah Ismail remarked that the Imran Khan-led regime was “toying with the economy”, adding that it had enhanced the loans of the government and state institutions by Rs 45,000 billion.