Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground

Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground - Threat Matrix

Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground

Pakistan's electronic entertainment association has ordered merchants to pull the video games Call of Duty and Medal of Honor as the games "unfairly depict the country as a breeding ground for excessive violence, and where security forces have ties to al Qaeda," Al Jazeera reports. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the makers of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor would portray Pakistan in such a light. After all, Pakistan is the country where Osama bin Laden lived for 10 years after 9/11, the last six of them in a massive complex just outside of Abbottabad, Pakistan's version of West Point. Pakistani security forces were somehow unable to find him in the closed, garrison city, and yet the CIA and US Navy SEALs could. But Pakistan was able to jail a doctor who helped the US track down and kill bin Laden. Without Pakistan's provision of a safe haven for the Afghan Tal...

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@d_notices » 13 Feb '13, 4pm
Merchants ban videogames portraying Pakistan as terrorist breeding ground [link] Youth dismay "Now how will we fight back?"
@praveenswami » 30 Jan '13, 12pm
Bill Roggio, with a wry take on how some videogames are too close to reality for some Pakistani merchants | [link]
@Seljuqi » 28 Jan '13, 1pm
RT @BaiburSaladin: ہم 60 سال سے امریکا کی سیوا کر رہے ہیں اور وو ہمیں دہشتگرد کہتے ہیں [link]
@neilshortland » 28 Jan '13, 1pm
#CallOfDuty and #MedalofHonor banned in #Pakistan for depicting country as a breeding ground for excessive violence [link]
@BaiburSaladin » 27 Jan '13, 8pm
ہم 60 سال سے امریکا کی سیوا کر رہے ہیں اور وو ہمیں دہشتگرد کہتے ہیں [link]
@doubtinggaurav » 27 Jan '13, 6pm
Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground - Threat Matrix [link]
@godlessyndicate » 27 Jan '13, 8am
MT @robcrilly: Amusing take on Pakistan's "ban" on Medal of Honor & COD [link] -my original story: [link] #Games
@kalsoom82 » 27 Jan '13, 8am
. RT @robcrilly: amusing take on PK's "ban" on Medal of Honor & Call of Duty [link] - original story: [link]
@robcrilly » 27 Jan '13, 8am
amusing take on Pakistan's "ban" on Medal of Honor and Call of Duty [link] - my original story: [link]
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