Pakistan has plans to open up an amusement park in the town that Osama bin Laden was killed. Reuters reported that the project will cost $30 million and
will be an amusement park and outdoor activity center on the edge of
Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in
2011 in a secret raid. The park is set to be 50-acres and could eventually grow to 500 acres, reported TIME. "The project will take five years to complete," Jamaluddin Khan, the deputy provincial minister for tourism said to Reuters.
He also said that the project will include a mini golf course, a zoo, water sports, paragliding and rock climbing. The exact location where Bin Laden lived, a large villa, has
been demolished and senior regional official Khalid Omarazai has advised
that the government build houses for local officials in its place. "The government officers in Abbottabad have been facing residential
problems and we have enough space now where bin Laden's compound was
demolished," he said to Reuters. Syed Aqil who is the minister for tourism and sports in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province said the project was not about changing
Abbottabad's image. He said to the AFP that the park has nothing to do
with Osama bin Laden." He added that it was "to promote tourism and
amusement facilities in the whole province."
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