The Prime Minister expressed
these views in a meeting with a delegation of Turkish construction company at
the Prime Minister’ Office this morning.
The Prime Minister said that Pakistan needs to learn from Turkey ’s rich
experience in construction and housing sectors as the country has built 600000
low-cost housing units for the middle income groups during the last ten years
to overcome the housing units’ shortage.
The Prime Minister pointed out
that vast swathes of land was lying idle in the environs of major cities and
added that it could be brought into effective use by building high-risers to overcome the acute shortage of housing
units in Pakistan’s urban centers. He further said that houses and apartments
built under this scheme could be made available to the lower income people on
subsidized rates and to the middle income groups on their actual cost. Further
elaborating the idea, the Prime Minister observed that both sides of the
Islamabad Expressway could be utilized for the purpose.
Underlining the need of
overcoming housing units’ shortage in urban centers, the Prime Minister said
that self-sufficient and self-contained housing colonies be built in the
suburban areas of those centers connecting them with the city centers with the
help of fast transportation system.
The Prime Minister said that
local architectural designs given preference in order to give local touch to
the architecture.
Mr. Ahmed Albayrak, head of the
Turkish delegation, said that both Turkey
and Pakistan
are friendly countries and also alluded to the Tahreek Khilafat of the early 20th
century which the Muslims of the sub-Continent had launched in favor of their
Turk brethren. Mr. Albayrak added that Turkey has a rich experience in the
field of housing and said they are all ready to share it with their Pakistani
brethren.
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