Pakistan: Rape and homicide linked to cell apps PUBG and TikTok

Two incidents of rape and homicide have come to the fore in Pakistan, and each have been related to two standard apps, PUBG and TikTok, each banned in India amidst issues about knowledge safety. While TikTok is a Chinese app, PUBG is developed by a South Korean firm, however the cell model of it was developed by Chinese agency Tencent Games for each Android and iOS.
In the primary case, a 15-year-old teenage boy was brutally raped and murdered for blocking an affiliate of the accused on the web gaming app PUBG. According to an area report, Lahore’s Raiwind City Police arrested 4 accused on costs of rape and homicide of a 15-year-old teenage boy in Raiwind, Lahore, Pakistan.
According to a report by an area information channel Geo News, the suspects purportedly raped and murdered {the teenager} as a result of he blocked a good friend of the principle suspect on the web PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) recreation.
The native police stated that the accused kidnapped the boy on the thirteenth of January. They took the sufferer to Nankana Sahib, the place they first raped after which murdered him. The sufferer’s physique was later present in Sheikhupura. 
The Lahore police despatched the DNA samples of the accused to a forensic lab for additional investigation.
Last yr on the 2nd of September, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India determined to block 118 cell apps citing issues that these are ‘prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order’. PUBG was additionally one of many apps banned by Indian govt.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had additionally determined to impose a brief ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) in Pakistan. However, the choice had come owing to the truth that a minimum of two individuals in Pakistan had dedicated suicide and their deaths have been linked to this on-line recreation.
Four avid TikTok customers murdered in Karachi, Pakistan
Meanwhile, in one other case, 4 social media customers, together with one feminine, notably energetic on the Chinese brief video app TikTok, had been shot lifeless by unknown assailants close to Anklesaria Hospital in Karachi’s Garden space early on Tuesday (February 2) morning.
According to a report by Dawn, two deceased recognized as Muskaan and Amir had been associates. City Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh stated that on the fateful night time, Muskan and Amir met. Amir, who organized for a automotive, invited two of his associates Rehan and Sajjad.
All 4 roamed across the metropolis and Amir and Muskaan additionally made TikTok movies throughout that point, stated the official, furthering that through the wee hours of the morning, whereas they had been round Anklesaria Hospital in Karachi’s Garden space, some unknown assailants attacked them. The woman was sitting contained in the automotive whereas the boys had been standing exterior after they had been shot.
The woman succumbed to the damage contained in the automotive. The three boys had been rushed to the hospital the place they too succumbed to their wounds.
Empty shells from 9mm pistols had been discovered close to the automotive, as per the report. The household of the deceased arrived on the police station and a primary data report (FIR) could be registered.
The Pakistani native newspaper quoted a supply as saying that the killing “appeared to be the outcome of some personal issues”. However, the police are attempting to analyze the precise motive of the homicide and the identification of the killers, he added. The SSP confirmed that there have been no witnesses to the incident. 
It is pertinent to notice right here, that Rehan and Sajjad had beforehand uploaded a TikTok video through which they had been seen doing aerial firing in Karachi’s Ittihad Town space. After the video went viral, police had taken cognisance and registered an FIR towards the 2 youths.
TikTok, a video sharing app owned by a Chinese firm referred to as ByteDance, which is banned in India, aside from posing threats to nationwide safety and being extensively used to objectify girls and glorify assaults on them, selling rape, animal cruelty, home violence and many others., the Chinese app has been linked to a number of deaths, as customers had been utilizing the app to submit movies of suicide and even murders.
Several murders and suicides within the latest previous have been related to the Chinese social media app. The glorification of pervasive points and the app’s toxicity has compelled the federal government to difficulty a blanket ban on the Chinese app.