Games without frontiers: Indians, Pakistanis team up for eSports


  • TECH
  • Friday, 18 Dec 2020

Zeyan Shafiq, after playing the PUBG mobile game in Srinagar. — Tauseef Mustafa/AFP

NEW DELHI: When India banned the hit PUBG mobile game over its diplomatic row with China, Zeyan Shafiq's eSports team was suddenly left without players. So Shafiq, who is based in war-torn Kashmir, did something very unusual: he reached across the border to Pakistan.

Shafiq, 18, feared reprisals over his move, but none came. It resulted in an unheard-of alliance between Indian and Pakistani gamers, forged in one of the most dangerous regions in the world.

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