I’d like to know why the News keeps calling this S-hole a Mansion. Other that the high ugly wall, the house itself looks like something you would see in a Detroit ghetto.
I think in this case, “mansion” or “villa” would be the journalistic shorthand for a very large building; it refers to the enormous size of the structure (relative to the average for the town) not the presumed luxurious view of it from the outside.
It also appears that the building was air-conditioned, which is still somewhat of a luxury in Pakistan, where first entirely centrally air-conditioned apartment building was built around 2006.
The idea was NOT to attract, but discourage undue attention from the outside world; at least no more than the size itself would warrant.