Pakistan: Lahore is Getting a Theme Park
A feasibility study for a new theme park in Lahore worth Rs 200 million has been approved by the Punjab government.
The decision was taken during a Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) meeting chaired by Planning & Development Board Chairman Dr. Naeem Rauf on Friday. The meeting approved seven major development projects across tourism, IT, roads, and minority affairs with a combined value of Rs 5.118 billion.
Among the tourism-focused projects, the PDWP also cleared feasibility studies for:
- Sky Walk Glass Bridge in Murree (Rs 72.152 million)
- Chairlift & Cable Car from Lakot to Pindi Point, Murree (Rs 90 million)
- Cable Car at River Indus, Kala Bagh, Mianwali (Rs 81.571 million)
Other initiatives include the construction of a road from Danda Shah Bilawal to Ghool via Lawa, Chakwal (Rs 1.374 billion), the Chief Minister’s Minority Development Programme (Rs 1 billion), and the Accelerate Punjab Startups Tech Programme (Rs 2.3 billion).
The meeting was attended by senior officials, including Secretary P&D Board Rafaqat Ali, Secretary Tourism Raja Jahangir, Secretary Minorities Affairs Farid Ahmad, Chief Economist Masood Anwar, and members of the P&D Board.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/08/23/lahore-is-getting-a-theme-park/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
