KARACHI, June 9: The city government has decided to construct a multi-storied complex to house a model mosque, a hostel on the pattern of a five-star hotel, an auditorium and a parking lot, at two huge plots adjacent to Civic Centre. Foundation-stone of the project which is estimated to cost Rs 880 million is expected to be laid by the City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, in the current month and it is scheduled to be completed in three years.
All these three projects would be constructed on two plots: ST 2 and 3 (15-A and 15-B) which are nowadays being utilized as a parking lot.
It was decided at a high-level meeting held at the Civic Centre on Tuesday night with the City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, in the chair. Gulshan Town’s Nazim, Abdul Wahab, city government’s EDO Sarfraz Ali Shah, EDO Manzoor Ahmed, Karachi Mass Transit Cell’s director-general, Malik Zaheeru-ul-Isam, Nazim’s coordinators Ansar Razi and Abdid Ilyas and othe senior officials of the CDGK were present.
The meeting was told that the multi-storied complex will have a model mosque, a five-star hostel for foreign delegates and an auditorium, besides providing parking space for 1,300 cars.
The meeting was told that with a view to providing accommodation to the foreign delegates, construction of a hostel on the pattern of five-star hotel in the vicinity of the Civic Centre has become a necessity.
The proposed model mosque, to be built in the complex, will be accommodating around 6000 faithful at a time while its basement, having a capacity of 3000, will be used as women prayer area.
About the proposed auditorium, it was told that it will have a seating capacity of over 5,000 people. The basement and ground floor of the auditorium will be reserved for car parking purpose where around 1,300 cars could be parked at one time.
The sources said that it will also have a library, a convention centre, a reading room, a Talim-i-Balighan centre, a language centre, a cafeteria and a separate enclosure for women.
Asked if the PC-One of the proposed multi-storied complex has been prepared, the sources in the CDGK said that it was nowadays being given final shape.
