Peshawar: Civil Secretariat decided to demolish the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) building in order to build a parking lot in its place.
According to officials familiar with the matter, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Secretary Muhammad Shahzad Arbab has already issued the directives wherein the PDMA building in the secretariat constructed at a cost Rs75 million will be demolished to establish a parking space for 30-40 official cars.
“The reason for the demolishing is to develop a car parking area because at the moment the secretariat does not have a parking lot inside its premises.”
He lamented the PDMA building and Mian Rashid Block, named after former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain’s son, built rather recently at a combined cost of nearly Rs120 million are being demolished just to make space to park 30-40 cars.
