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Dawn.com
ISLAMABAD
MINISTER for Education Shafqat Mehmood announced on Thursday that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government will turn the Prime Minister House into a postgraduate university of a high quality.
Addressing a press conference regarding the new government's plans for state-owned properties, the minister announced that additional construction will also be carried out on the land behind the residence meant for the premier after a formal plan is devised in this regard.
The PM House is spread over 1,096 kanals and Rs 470 million are spent on its upkeep annually, said Mehmood, who was heading a committee formed to decide how government-owned buildings could be utilised in public interest.
"[The] PM House will become a high-quality university or institution that will be unique with its education in Pakistan,"he said.
In his first address to the nation after being elected, Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced that he would be staying in a"three-bedroom house that served as the military secretary's residence", instead of the Prime Minister House.
"I wish that the PM House will be turned into a university. It is in a great location to be one,"Khan had said at the time.
The minister announced that the Government House in Murree, which the Punjab government had spent Rs600m on recently, will be transformed into a"heritage boutique hotel".
"You can see gold plating on the commodes in the bathrooms of the [building],"Mehmood said.
