Abbottabad, Pakistan—the town best known as the place Osama bin Laden was tracked down and killed—hopes to boost tourism with a new amusement park.
"This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," provincial minister for tourism Syed Aqil Shah told the AFP.
The park includes a zoo, adventure sports facility, restaurants, a heritage center, and artificial waterfalls.
In fact, Abbottabad has been a popular tourist destination since the colonial era. The town was named after the British Major James Abbott, who declared in a poem: "I adored the place from the first sight / And was happy that my coming here was right."