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The Taliban has announced a ban on the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Mobile). The game will be banned in Afghanistan in the next three months and it has been accused of promoting violence. The neighboring country’s telecommunications ministry held a meeting with representatives of the Sharia Law Enforcement Administration and the security sector this week and decided to ban the PUBG Mobile and TikTok apps in the country within the next 90 days.
According to Afghanistan’s news agency Khama Press, the PUBG Mobile game will be banned within the next three months, while the Tiktok app has been said to be shut down within a month. The Afghan government has informed the country’s telecommunications and internet service providers about the decision and given a stipulated time to implement the ban.
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Many internet users are sharing memes and making fun of this decision of Taliban because Taliban has occupied Afghanistan on the basis of violence. At the same time, it wants to ban the game, citing the reason for encouraging violence.
Taliban bans millions of websites
Before the announcement of the ban on popular apps, the Taliban have banned about 23 million websites for the citizens of Afghanistan. The government said that unethical content was being shown on these websites. The Taliban government’s communications minister, Najibullah Haqqani, said that millions of websites had to be banned because they were changing pages frequently and banning one page became active.
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PUBG Mobile is also banned in India and Pakistan
Afghanistan is not the first country, which is going to ban PUBG Mobile. India also banned this game in the year 2020 for sending data to Chinese servers. The India-only version of the game BGMI, which was launched last year, has been banned in the last quarter. At the same time, Pakistan has also banned this game for promoting violence and harming the mental health of children.
