LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), a popular online multiplayer battle game,
Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza dismissed the petition filed by a citizen, Tanveer Ahmed, on January 29, days after a young man gunned down members of his family in their sleep, apparently under the influence of the shooter game.
Police said Ali Zain shot dead his mother, two sisters and a brother on January 18, and claimed under questioning at the weekend that the game had driven him to violence.
“This is not the first incident of its nature,” police investigator Imran Kishwar told reporters in Lahore Monday, adding: “So we have decided to recommend a ban”.
PUBG is an online multiplayer “battle royale” game in which the winner is the last survivor.
The court binned the petition after Ahmed’s counsel failed to appear in the second consecutive hearing.
