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The Pakistani government suffered without money after New York went into a $ 220 million contract with the hotel that he owns, which became a focus of criticism by US President Donald Trump’s supporter.
Pakistani International Airlines has bought a centuries -old Hotel Roosevelt Hotel on Manhattan more than two decades ago. Since 2023, the hotel has been used for the host or processing more than 100,000 immigrants who have been driving from all over the USA.
But this week, New York Mayor Eric Adams said the city would close the shelter, saying that the number of immigrants who entered New York fell to 350 a week with 4,000 a week ago.
Adams said more than 232,000 migrants have been in New York in the last three years. “Hotel Roosevelt was where we processed 75% of those who entered our care, which was crucial for our effective operations,” he announced on X.
The early end of the three -year contract is a failure for Pakistan because he tries to privatize his flag carrier, which was a great withdrawal of state finance. The first round of competition for the airline last year has kicked the worries about investors due to questions, including tax on new aircraft and staff retention.
“We were aware of the risk with this new government [the Trump administration] Continuing, “said a senior government official in Pakistan. The contract could be canceled after May, the clerk said.
A spokesman for the city said the center would be closed in the “next month”, saving taxpayers “millions of dollars”.
Adam’s decision to close the shelter followed two weeks after the US Ministry of Justice rejected the charges of corruption against himThe moves from the move say it was part of Quid Pro quo with Trump’s administration to enhance the breakthrough against illegal immigrants. Adams denied claims.
Formerly a luxury Roosevelt, which has more than 1,000 rooms and has been a historical place in New York for decades, was rented in 1979. She later bought an airline company directly, which made it a favored persecution of the rich Pakistani who used the US-Defundated Karači Air Force Company to make shopping.
But the hotel gradually fell for the benefit, and losses associated with pandemia finally forced its closure in 2020.
Revenues from the Migrant shelter agreement help pay more than the RS600 billion ($ 2.14 billion) debt that was taken over by PIA -O’s Holding when it was created last year, which is a move to mitigate the privatization of assets that includes the basic airplane and the Paris hotel.
The intense deviation due to the use of New York Roosevelt has grown among Trump officials and supporters.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who previously led the so-called cost reduction, the efficiency of the Government, together with Elon male, said on social networks X in December that “nut” that “NYC taxpayers effectively pay foreign government to make illegals in our country.”
In February, Trump himself complained to the city using large sums at a hotel, which he said was not a “luxury”.
In the post on X, his Minister for Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, justified the decision on freezing $ 80 million in Migration Migrations for New York, saying that the hotel “Base Operation” for the Venecuelan Band. Noem offered any evidence for that claim.
The early end of the contract could force Islamabad to accelerate the efforts on the sale of the property or to overthrow it and build a mixed purpose skyscraper with a developmental partner, said officials and analysts in Pakistan.
At the hotel, near the Grand Central station in Midtown Manhattan, residents filter and exit the building, exchanging greetings and punching with a safety staff behind metal barriers.
Children living in the hotel are played on the roadway outside, stepping from accelerated dishes and clothing stores.
Inside, the lobby of the hotel still has its decorated chandeliers and portrait of Guy Lombard, a well -known leader of Roosevelt’s home band in the 1930s.
The planned closing of the hotel facing the hotel caused concern among some of its more than 2,800 inhabitants.
“The truth is, they didn’t tell us anything,” said Hecdimar Rivas, a 26-year-old mother of three who arrived from Venezuela earlier this year. “We found out from the press.”
