Pakistan to turn Osama town into amusement city

[Blackwater]

PESHAWAR: Pakistan is planning to build a $30 million amusement park with a zoo and adventure sports facilities in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces, officials said on Monday. The 50-acre riverside development on the edge of Abbottabad, where the US navy SEALs shot the al-Qaida leader dead on May 2, 2011, will include restaurants, a heritage centre and artificial waterfalls.

The government of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province hopes the project, announced as a public-private partnership, will boost tourism but denied it was intended to improve the town's image after the humiliation of Osama raid. "The amusement city will be built on 50 acres in the first phase but later will be extended to 500 acres," said Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports. "It will have a heritage park, wildlife zoo, food street, adventure and paragliding clubs, waterfalls and jogging tracks."

Work is due to begin in late February or early March, he said, and will take eight years to complete. Funds worth $30 million have been allocated, he said. Abbottabad , a quiet, leafy town nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas, has long been a popular spot for well-heeled families from the capital to spend weekends away.

Pakistan to turn Osama town into amusement city - The Times of India

 

[Blackwater]

first Pakistan uses osama as blank cheque and received billion of $$$$$, now uses his name to promote tourism. Tough we all know except jihadis no body will come to this town


BTW osama gives more money to PAK than saudis in the last 65 yrs of pak existence

 

[Ash]

Read this somewhere, thought I would share

LET'S NAME THE RIDES!

"¢The Twin Towers of Terror
"¢The Hairy-Go-Round
"¢Ali Baba
"¢Topple Tower
"¢Roll-O-Plane
"¢Osama Been Ridin'
"¢Tilt-a-Churl

 

[datguy79]

-The Last Ride
- Final-Dhamaka!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

"The amusement city will be built on 50 acres in the first phase but later will be extended to 500 acres," said Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports. "It will have a heritage park, wildlife zoo, food street, adventure and paragliding clubs, waterfalls and jogging tracks."

Surely there will be a shooting gallery?

 

[Decklander]

Live shooting gallery, kill whomever you want like shias, Ahnadis and Hindus in any numbers.

 

[Ash]

All in honour of Osama


Osama Bin Laden - World champion-hide and seek ( 2001- 2010)

 

[farhan_9909]

500 acres :O

beside this the town name is bilal not osama

good for me though

 

[sob]

500 acres :O

beside this the town name is bilal not osama

good for me though

this is your area right.

 

[Ray]

Not surprising that Abbotabad is to become a circus.

They had harboured the greatest clown of all times - Osama who was totally Laden and finally laid.....to rest!

Aircraft is the curse of their family. Osama's father died in an aircrash and burnt to death and Osama was killed by troops who flew in through the air, his skin burnt with cordite!

However, Osama's father was a very hardworking, enterprising, hands on person, who used to toady around Saud and Faisal and with his construction business he became the leading construction company in Saudi Arabia. And interestingly, he was a total illiterate! He was religious but also appreciated western modernity and technology!

 

[Ray]

"The amusement city will be built on 50 acres in the first phase but later will be extended to 500 acres," said Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports. "It will have a heritage park, wildlife zoo, food street, adventure and paragliding clubs, waterfalls and jogging tracks."

And on the side having an area replicating Heera Mandi?

 

[Blackwater]

And on the side having an area replicating Heera Mandi?

 

[Novice]

Looks like Osama Bin Lauden 's (read the last name like Hindi/Urdu) favorite time pass

 

[rock127]

All in honour of Osama


Osama Bin Laden - World champion-hide and seek ( 2001- 2010)

Chooha #1... needs a dedicated movie about his chronicles of living a life like a Mouse evading American Eagle.

 

[Dovah]

Al Qaeda won't be amused with this methinks.

 

[Rahul92]

The country itself is a amusement ZOO

 

[Shirman]

They should also open some more amusement parks in Lahore so that Hafeez Saeed could play n in Karachi for people to avoid Daily Killings..........:thumb: