Mon 31 January 2022:
Pakistani police demanded that the immensely popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) game be banned after a boy admitted to killing four members of his family in a rage after bingeing for days playing online.
“This is not the first incident of its nature,” police investigator Imran Kishwar told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore, adding “so we have decided to recommend a ban”.
Ali Zain is accused of killing his mother, two sisters, and a brother on January 18 and claiming that the game drove him to violence during questioning over the weekend.
PUBG is a multiplayer online “battle royale” game in which the last person standing wins.
Ali, according to Kishwar, was addicted to the game and lived in utter seclusion in his room.
Dawn newspaper quoted a Lahore police as saying Ali “fired at his family thinking that they will also come back to life, as happened in the game”.
PUBG has become one of the most popular smartphone games in the world, with comparisons to the blockbuster book and film series “The Hunger Games.”
Following complaints about the game’s violent content, Pakistani telecoms regulators temporarily blocked access to it.
Several other countries, like India and China, have banned the game, either temporarily or permanently.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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