The government has not yet taken any decision to stop the violent game PUBG or such type of games. As a result, these games are not being banned immediately.
The information came to light after talking to senior officials of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on Saturday.
According to recent media reports, it was reported that the ministry and the BTRC are going to ban PUBG and Free Fire games based on the recommendations of the parliamentary committee.
At the same time, information from the Ministry of Education and Home Affairs was also highlighted in several media outlets. However, an official of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said that there was no such national recommendation to ban PUBG.
Asked by Digibangla, whether the PUBG game is being banned, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said no such directive had been issued by the government yet.
“We are not the opposition,” he said. “Our responsibility is, only if the government gives us directives to ban it, we will execute it. No one gave us such directives.”
On May 21, a teenager named Mamun committed suicide in the Upadi village of Matlab Dakshin Upazila in Chandpur after not getting money to buy internet data for playing a violent game on his mobile phone. After this incident, other similar games including PUBG came up in discussion again.
Later, in a statement sent to the media on May 26, the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Subscribers Association demanded to control the games like Free Fire and PUBG.