According to a report in Dawn News, a technical college in the Murree area is being converted into a prison. The building was constructed in 1987, when locals donated 200 kanals of land which was complimented with an additional 100 kanals purchased by the federal government. The result was a massive multi-block college campus with a 100 bed hostel; the cost: millions of rupees spent on a perpetually empty building. In its entire 23 year life the building's only use was as temporary headquarters for an earthquake-relief NGO in 2005, whose members managed to damage the premises beyond further use; even breaking down a few walls.It seems the federal government is applying fairly simple logic: if the building is empty, why let it go to waste? Indeed, a building of this size can be useful for just about anything with the right investments; the question to be asked is why this investment is directed towards establishing a prison, rather than making the college operational. In this particular case, locals donated their own land and it is unlikely that they would prefer a prison in their locale.
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