Pakistan Services Limited,

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Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts (also abbreviated to PC Hotels), is the largest chain of five-star hotels in

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with properties in

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...

, Rawalpindi,

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Gwadar Gwadar ( Balochi/ ur, ) is a port city with located on the southwestern coast of Balochistan, Pakistan. The city is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea opposite Oman. Gwadar is the 100th largest city of Pakistan, according to the 2017 ...

Bhurban Bhurban ( ur, بھوربن ) is a small town and a hill station in Punjab province, Pakistan. The resort town is named after a nearby forest. It is located approximately from Murree city. Location Bhurban is situated in between Murree and Kas ...

Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad (; ur, ) is the capital and largest city of Azad Kashmir, and the 60th largest in Pakistan. The city is located in Muzaffarabad District, near the confluence of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers. The district is bounded by the Pak ...

. and

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, and under construction in

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, Mirpur,

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, and

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. Pearl-Continental Hotels is a subsidiary of Hashoo Group who also operate

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in Islamabad and Karachi through a franchise system.

Hashoo group Hashoo Group is a Pakistani conglomerate company which is active in hospitality, oil and gas sectors. It was founded in 1960 by Saddaruddin Hashwani in Karachi.chain of four-star hotels by the name of PC LEGACY. PC LEGACY Naran is functional and operating in Naran and another is being constructed in Nasirabad,

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. The Pearl-Continental Hotel in Karachi was inaugurated by President

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on 10 May 1964 and was the first five-star hotel in Pakistan which hosted various prominent figures from across the globe including Queen Elizabeth II, Nelson Mandela, and

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, among others. Cabin crew from Lufthansa, SAS, and Swissair would stay there during their transits. It was a member of the

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for over a decade. A New Hotel was built for

and Rawalpindi in 1967 with another branch opening in

in 1975.

Karachi Incident

On Thursday night 26 May, 2022 the roof of the 5-star property collapsed down at Karachi's Pearl-Continental Hotel. According to the reports one person was killed and three others injured after the ceiling of the

five-star hotel Hotel ratings are often used to classify hotels according to their quality. From the initial purpose of informing travellers on basic facilities that can be expected, the objectives of hotel rating have expanded into a focus on the hotel experie ...

caved in on top of them. The incident occurred inside the Marco Polo Hall at the hotel where an event was under way.

Gallery

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References

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