Sir: According to a press report, the CDWP has approved 162 percent hike in PM House expansion cost and the revised cost is Rs. 298.2 million. Worthy PM had announced that he would like to live in a smaller house for austerity but he decided to live in PM House on the recommendations of the security authorities. The expansion cost must have sent shock waves to his admirers who are worried about the consequences of abject poverty, fast increasing loans without developing capacity to pay back as in the past and unprecedented expenditure of rulers on their life and governance style. Worthy PM may please like to reconsider the PM House expansion keeping in view its high cost and poverty of his voters. M AKRAM NIAZI Rawalpindi Cantt