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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT +APP): Pakistan Tourism Development
Corporation (PTDC) has planned to construct a motel with modern
facilities for the tourists at Naltar, Gilgit.
Talking to APP, Managing Director PTDC Abdul Ghafoor Khan said
Friday that on the request of PTDC, the Chief Minister, Gilgit
Baltistan, Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman has allotted a piece of land
measuring 30 kanals at Naltar for construction of a Motel by PTDC
with modern facilities near the PAF Skiing Slopes which is an ideal
location.
PTDC has appreciated the interest shown by the Gilgit
Baltistan Government for the promotion in the area.
Expressing his views, he also stated that Gilgit Baltistan
Government has a vibrant plan to install and operate a chairlift and
provide other facilities at Naltar.
The purpose is to ensure entertainment and amusement
facilities to the general public and visiting guests.
Gilgit Baltistan presents safe, secure and peaceful atmosphere
to the visiting foreign and local tourists, he added.
Managing Director, PTDC, Abdul Ghafoor Khan, who paid visit to
Gilgit-Baltistan has also visited the site for proposed Motel at
Naltar Valley accompanying member of PTDC Board of Directors
Irfanullah Baig.
The Managing Director, PTDC has expressed the hope that such
steps will definitely bring about prosperity in the areas coincide
with the gigantic project of CPEC which will totally alter the fate
of this region on the whole economically and the Pakistan in
particular.
In order to facilitate the tourists, PTDC and Gilgit Baltistan
Government will join hands mutually and have close cooperation with
each other to ensure provision of modern facilities to the visiting
tourists.