(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Egyptian authorities on Sunday started taking measures to demolish the torched headquarters of Egypt's former ruling National Democratic Party in central Cairo.
Special equipment was brought into the site in preparation for demolishing the headquarters of the party of Hosni Mubarak, who ruled this country for three decades until 2011, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency.
In mid-April, the government delegated the army's Engineering Department and Cairo local authorities to demolish the Nile-side multi-story building, which is only meters away from Tahrir Square, the iconic center of the revolution against Mubarak in 2011.
Egyptian demonstrators torched the party's headquarters in the wake of protests which sparked a three-week uprising in January and February of 2011.
In April of the same year, the party was dissolved by court.
The Egyptian cabinet has yet to provide a specific date for the planned demolition.
The cabinet has not specified how the site will be used in the future.
The structure was built in the 1960s under late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser to serve as the administrative building of Cairo governorate.
It later served as the headquarters of the then-ruling Socialist Union Party.
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