{"id":5338,"date":"2025-04-27T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:04:43","slug":"water-tank-set-to-house-rooftop-eatery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"Water tank set to house rooftop eatery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A 19th-century water tank located near the Ghanta Ghar in Multan is likely to be transformed into a rooftop restaurant as part of efforts to preserve and repurpose the city&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>According to Multan Walled City Project Assistant Director Umair Ghazanfar, conservation work at the site is under way and expected to be completed within four months.<\/p>\n<p>The massive iron tank, standing on sturdy steel columns that has been visible to generations of the city&#8217;s residents, has long been a landmark of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed during the British rule, the tank dates back to 1888, the year when Multan was granted the status of a town committee. Measuring approximately 70 feet in length and 45 feet in width, the tank had the capacity of storing around 400,000 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its imposing above-ground structure, nearly 75 per cent of its height lies below the surface, highlighting the depth and strength of its foundation, said walled city guide Amir Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>Umair Ghazanfar shared that extensive structural repairs were being undertaken. &#8220;Where the iron has rusted away, new plates will be installed. We are working on two proposals &#8212; one is to convert it into a rooftop restaurant, and the other is to allow visitors access to the top, similar to how Damdama, the highest part of Fort Kohna Multan, has been made accessible to tourists,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the priority is to develop it into a rooftop restaurant, which would offer a unique blend of heritage and modern experience,&#8221; the official stated.<\/p>\n<p>The tank had fallen out of use over the previous decades.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19th-century water tank located near the Ghanta Ghar in Multan is likely to be transformed into a rooftop restaurant as part of efforts to preserve and repurpose the city&#8217;s heritage. According to Multan Walled City Project Assistant Director Umair Ghazanfar, conservation work at the site is under way and expected to be completed within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}